On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 00:04 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Normally, I love Truecrypt, but there are two specific obstacles for > now …
> > Does anybody have any suggestions to solve either of these two > problems, or recommend a different product instead of TrueCrypt? There is a partial solution in Linux. It's not as strong in terms of security as TrueCrypt. But it does solve the not sparse support handily. It is called encfs ( http://www.arg0.net/encfs ). It's a file system which puts a layer of encryption on top of another file system using the loop device. The mounted encfs file system looks and acts like a normal file system. You can access it and use it as any normal file system. When unmounted you can see there are files and directories in the underlying encrypted file system. But everything is gibberish even the file and directory names. You can backup, restore, move the encrypted file system normally. So incremental backups won't be any problem. And I did say move, you can copy the encrypted file system to another location or computer and mount it without any problems. And the file systems don't have to be a mounted partition. You encrypted file system can be just a sub-directory of a current file system. For example, you could have '/home/sjohnson/mystuff.enc' as the encrypted file system. And that can be mounted to '/home/sjohnson/mystuff' Encfs can also be used a FUSE (user space file system). So no special privileges are needed. -- Stephen Johnson <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
