On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 06:15:50PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> > What do you folks think of the relative merits of AES vs Blowfish for
> > disk encryption?
>
> Neither have been broken with their complete number of rounds. Versions of
> both can be broken with a reduced number of rounds. See
> ht
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:10:40 -0800
Chip Camden wrote:
> It seems prudent to me to reduce the attack surface to that which
> really needs to be defended -- "When you defend everything, you
> defend nothing". Not to mention avoiding the overhead of encrypting
> OS files.
I don't think the plain t
no at installation if you use standard installer.
as i don't use standard installer at all, i don't have such a problem.
i use any bootable FreeBSD media (actualy my own made pendrive), and then make
labels, do newfs, mount, unpack files etc.
if you can't do that then you may follow my advice
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:30:39 +0100
Alokat wrote:
> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during
> a freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the
> installation manually?
The FreeBSD installer (sysinstall) doesn't support anything other than
plain UFS but PCBSD'
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 08:10:40AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
> It seems prudent to me to reduce the attack surface to that which really
> needs to be defended -- "When you defend everything, you defend nothing".
> Not to mention avoiding the overhead of encrypting OS files.
Indeed.
> What do you
Quoth Roland Smith on Tuesday, 18 January 2011:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:05:53PM -0700, Modulok wrote:
> > On 1/17/11, Roland Smith wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:05:53PM -0700, Modulok wrote:
> On 1/17/11, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
> >> freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after
On 1/17/11, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
>> freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation
>> manually?
>
> Currently you have to do it manuall
On 1/17/11 5:53 PM, Roland Smith wrote:
Do not rely on a keyfile that resides on a disk in the machine (that would
make encryption futile)! Use a passphrase instead.
I'd think that depends on your use case. If you're encrypting removable
drives and then shipping them elsewhere, such as for off
Quoth Roland Smith on Tuesday, 18 January 2011:
>
> Since you are making a backup, why not just run geli(8), newfs(8) the new
> encrpyted partition and restore the data? I don't think it is much slower, and
> it is a _lot_ safer.
>
That makes a lot of sense. I don't know why I had such a mental
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:38:38PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chuck Swiger on Monday, 17 January 2011:
> > On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Alokat wrote:
> > > is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
> > > freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the i
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alokat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
> freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation
> manually?
Currently you have to do it manually afterwards.
Personally, I would not
Quoth Chuck Swiger on Monday, 17 January 2011:
> On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Alokat wrote:
> > is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
> > freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation
> > manually?
>
> I don't believe the current installer
On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Alokat wrote:
> is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
> freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation manually?
I don't believe the current installer knows about HD encryption. Do it after
the install by follo
Hi,
is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a
freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation
manually?
cYa,
alokat
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