scary

[Dennis Ruzeski]

No- It's filesystem encryption through a loopback device.  Password is
entered at mount time. If you forget your password, sucks to be you.

This is the best doc I've seen online that shows how to do it. 

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/HOWTO/Encryption-HOWTO/Encryption-HOWT
O-4.html


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Cyber Source
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:04 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
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are we talking about acl's? So how would you see your data again? Let's 
say you forgot passwords or whatever you would have to know to see your 
data again.

Dennis Ruzeski wrote:

>Nope- All the data is encrypted.  
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>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
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>so if you mount your data with another system, you cant see it?
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>Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
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>>I have that now on Linux- It's called an encrypted filesystem.
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>>--Dennis
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>>From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf
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>>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 10:49 AM
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>>cant wait to see how they hobbled this.....an excerpt from Yahoo News 
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>>Longhorn will also have a feature designed to protect data on a PC.
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