Geli questions.. ponderings..

2006-08-23 Thread Jeff Palmer
Hello, Let me preface the email by saying I'm not overly familiar with geli, and it may already have the ability to do what I'm about to describe. The scenario: A FreeBSD based appliance at a customer premise. The customer really can't be trusted not to disasemble the box, and gain

Re: Geli questions.. ponderings..

2006-08-23 Thread Steve Brown
The idea: I'd like to use geli to encrypt *everything* on the disk. So if someone (a competitor maybe) removes the disk from the machine, he can't gain any data off of it easily. I know nothing is 100%, but why make the process easy for him? It seems like there is a more basic problem