Paul Harper wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I had seen your name in a few emails and was aware of > zfs-crypto. > > loficc is completely new to me. > > It would be my view that full disk would need to be available for OpenSolaris > to be accepted by Government and Business users at least on laptops. There > is an article on the opensuse wiki that puts a good argument for an encrypted > root and using a usb token. > > http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO > > I am also thinking about having a go at compiling TrueCrypt on Solaris. I > have compiled stuff on Linux before and as it is cross platform I can use it > with Windows XP Professional, Linux and OSX. There is some demand for it:
Good luck, but it won't be a simple compile it will be a port (and starting that port is on my todo list for investigation after ZFS Crypto phase 1 has integrated). The Solaris and Linux driver interfaces are very different. -- Darren J Moffat