On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
Ivan Krsti wrote:
TrueCrypt is a fine solution and indeed very helpful if you need
cross-platform encrypted volumes; it lets you trivially make an
encrypted USB key you can use on Linux, Windows and OS X. If you're
*just* talking about
Ivan Krstić wrote:
On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
There is also a sleep mode issue identified by the NSA
Unlike FileVault whose keys (have to) persist in memory for the duration
of the login session, individual encrypted disk images are mounted on
demand and their keys
Ivan Krsti wrote:
TrueCrypt is a fine solution and indeed very helpful if you need
cross-platform encrypted volumes; it lets you trivially make an
encrypted USB key you can use on Linux, Windows and OS X. If you're
*just* talking about OS X, I don't believe TrueCrypt offers any
advantages
In Disk Utility - New Image, select size, properties and encryption
type (AES 128 or 256) and Create.
Then mount and use your encrypted disks as needed.
Just as an aside: on 10.5 and upwards I have taken to using encrypted
sparse bundles rather than simple images; the advantage of doing
On Sep 21, 2009, at 3:57 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
Is there any way to use FileVault on MacOS except on home
directories? I don't much want to use it on my home directory; it
doesn't play well with Time Machine (remember that availability is
also a security property); besides, different
On 22/09/2009 14:57, Darren J Moffat wrote:
There is also a sleep mode issue identified by the NSA:
An extremely minor point, that looks like Jacob and Ralf-Philipp perhaps
aka nsa.org, rather than the NSA.gov.
Still useful.
iang
On Sep 22, 2009, at 5:57 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
There is also a sleep mode issue identified by the NSA
Unlike FileVault whose keys (have to) persist in memory for the
duration of the login session, individual encrypted disk images are
mounted on demand and their keys destroyed from
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:57:56PM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote:
Is there any way to use FileVault on MacOS except on home
directories? I don't much want to use it on my home directory; it
doesn't play well with Time Machine (remember that availability is
also a security property);
Steve,
On Sep 21, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
Is there any way to use FileVault on MacOS except on home directories?
FileVault is essentially just the name for a plain encrypted disk
image which happens to have some voodoo associated with it to get
pivoted in as your homedir
Is there any way to use FileVault on MacOS except on home
directories? I don't much want to use it on my home directory; it
doesn't play well with Time Machine (remember that availability is
also a security property); besides, different directories of mine have
different sensitivity
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