On 16/12/2009 17:17, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Hillel Lubman wrote: >> What good encryption tools are available for OpenSolaris? There is no >> TrueCrypt package, and I didn't find GnuPG. Are there any existing >> packaged tools, or they should be built from source? > > There are lots of encryption tools in OpenSolaris, what is it you are > looking for specifically ? File encryption, file system encryption, > disk encryption ? > I need some cross platform encryption tool for encrypting an USB Flash drive for example (file based encryption can be OK, if cross platform file system encryption is not available).
> GnuPG is in build 130 when it comes out. > > For TrueCrypt see: > > http://blogs.sun.com/mbp/entry/truecrypt_on_opensolaris > > For file system encryption, I'm adding encryption to ZFS see: > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+zfs-crypto/ > > For disk/volume encryption see lofiadm(1M) and lofi(7D) - this is > similar to cryptoloop on Linux systems. > > There is also simple file encryption using /usr/bin/encrypt, or you > can use the OpenSSL cli tools as well. > Thanks. Are there any plans to include mcrypt in OpenSolaris distribution too? Regards, Hillel.
