Hillel Lubman wrote:
> 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?

It's already available

$ pkg install SUNWlibmcrypt 

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