Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
marcin wrote: Sure aes as well as blowfish and other features On 5/5/05, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:29 am, marcin wrote: Hello, I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is faster then CFS. Comparison between other encrypted filesystems and EncFs you can find here: http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Absolutely FANTASTIC... has aes too! Woo Hoo! -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 6:03pm up 27 days, 1:10, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list I am open to trying this out as an encrypted home directory as well. But since I already have CFS working on the laptop, perhaps I can get it going on my big AMD64 machine. So far it is using FreeBSD, but I want to convert it to Gentoo. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
Nick Rout wrote: There clearly is interest. May I suggest the gentoo wiki as the place for this? On Wed, 04 May 2005 15:28:29 -0700 rob3 wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very advantagious to encrypt it. I can show how to migrate your home directory to CFS. The only missing part so far is a shutdown/unmount script for the NFS based system. And since CFS uses NFS, you want to do a good firewalling job to make certain all the NFS ports are blocked in and out of your internet connection. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Yes, I will check out the wiki Ive never used it before At first, though I want to get writing. I tried Openoffice-bin, but got all these error messages when I tried to set it up, so I will just go with plain text I think the Openoffice compile might take all day, haha. Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
Hello, I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is faster then CFS. Comparison between other encrypted filesystems and EncFs you can find here: http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Of course CFS maybe more reliable (EncFs is fairly new), but I've been using EncFs for some time and it seems pretty stable. Regards, Marcin On 5/5/05, rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very advantagious to encrypt it. I can show how to migrate your home directory to CFS. The only missing part so far is a shutdown/unmount script for the NFS based system. And since CFS uses NFS, you want to do a good firewalling job to make certain all the NFS ports are blocked in and out of your internet connection. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:29 am, marcin wrote: Hello, I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is faster then CFS. Comparison between other encrypted filesystems and EncFs you can find here: http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Absolutely FANTASTIC... has aes too! Woo Hoo! -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 6:03pm up 27 days, 1:10, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
Hello Rob, I'm very interested in that subject. I hope you write that howto :) Goodluck with it M3rL7N On Wed, 04 May 2005 15:28:29 -0700 rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very advantagious to encrypt it. I can show how to migrate your home directory to CFS. The only missing part so far is a shutdown/unmount script for the NFS based system. And since CFS uses NFS, you want to do a good firewalling job to make certain all the NFS ports are blocked in and out of your internet connection. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 06:28 pm, rob3 wrote: Hi all, Hi Rob, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very advantagious to encrypt it. I can show how to migrate your home directory to CFS. The only missing part so far is a shutdown/unmount script for the NFS based system. And since CFS uses NFS, you want to do a good firewalling job to make certain all the NFS ports are blocked in and out of your internet connection. Sincerely, Rob. I'm very much interested in your approach to CFS. I tried a while back to implement something with it and I couldn't get it to work. However, crypto-loops filled the gaps nicely. I'm waiting with interest. :') Cheers. -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! 5:18pm up 26 days, 25 min, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 16:14, M3rL7N wrote: Hello I as well would be very interested in this as i already encrypt certain files and such, but being able to encrypt the whole home directory would be very beneficial, thanks. Hello Rob, I'm very interested in that subject. I hope you write that howto :) Goodluck with it M3rL7N On Wed, 04 May 2005 15:28:29 -0700 rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very advantagious to encrypt it. I can show how to migrate your home directory to CFS. The only missing part so far is a shutdown/unmount script for the NFS based system. And since CFS uses NFS, you want to do a good firewalling job to make certain all the NFS ports are blocked in and out of your internet connection. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org Public Key http://www.lostsonsvault.org/dls/lostson.asc pgpNEMPIxe58r.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
Please! If you want beta testers for your howto, I'm game with a fresh install of Gentoo on an old PC (Athlon 800 and yes, last night was it's first night not running emerge ;-) Thank you, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm interested too. I would love to have this on my notebook in case the worst happens. I can also test this in a Gentoo VMWare that I use. If you'd like the image, I can ftp it to you somewhere. Its' about 900MB zipped. Daevid. Hi David, Yes, I use a notebook almost exclusively, and it is great knowing that if someone stole it, they wouldn't get anything of interest on me. Of course, I'm still out $3K, and they can just reformat the hard drive. I will in the next few days put together a draft step-by-step proceedure for doing it, as it seems there's some interest. However, I am still hung up on the shutdown commands, as my notebook hangs at trying to unmount the CFS directory. But since it has already unmounted everything else, I don't have any problem with shutting down the power manually. Sincerely, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory
Oh yeah!!! That does sound like something I'd like to learn how to do. On 5/4/05, rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, it is very advantagious to encrypt it. I can show how to migrate your home directory to CFS. The only missing part so far is a shutdown/unmount script for the NFS based system. And since CFS uses NFS, you want to do a good firewalling job to make certain all the NFS ports are blocked in and out of your internet connection. Sincerely, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
