Re: vnconfig question...

2007-04-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On 4/25/07, poncenby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i'm obviously missing something here. could you explain why it is a bad idea to have two files, the key and salt, which would be used to initially mount the regular file, then securely deleted from the host and only re-introduced to the host when

Re: vnconfig question...

2007-04-25 Thread poncenby
i'm obviously missing something here. could you explain why it is a bad idea to have two files, the key and salt, which would be used to initially mount the regular file, then securely deleted from the host and only re-introduced to the host when decryption/remounting is required. and also, for u

Re: vnconfig question...

2007-04-25 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:47:00PM +0100, poncenby wrote: > List, > > Are there plans to change vnconfig so it will accept a file for the key when > -K > is specified? > I notice there was a patch put up to misc in 2004, does anyone know if there > is a > patch for 4.0? vnconfig in -current, at

vnconfig question...

2007-04-24 Thread poncenby
List, Are there plans to change vnconfig so it will accept a file for the key when -K is specified? I notice there was a patch put up to misc in 2004, does anyone know if there is a patch for 4.0? Cheers poncenby