[NMLUG] Creating a loopback crypto filesystem

[havoc at harrisdev.com (Jody Harris)]

Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> This looks great!
> Might you be willing to give us some more hints, or URL's?
> What encryption do you recommend?
> Where can we get stuff for the appropriate "international" encryption
> module (a 2.6 debian sources.list entry would be nice... if you
> know...)?
> How/where do we do key generation, and how/where do you keep your key?
> (Thumb drive, CD-ROM...   Is a password-protected key secure enough...
>    in case I decide to leave the key on the system...)
> 
> I may want to start keeping some sensitive data in a crypto-fs.
> I also may want to encrypt sensitive data before backing up via
> disk-space shares discussed earlier.

I'll keep you updated as I get there.  Having to go back-and-forth 
between the two articles is a bit of a pain because they are addressing 
different issues with different versions of technology.

The original author of the two articles I am gleaning from is Mike 
Petullo.  The email given in the articles is lj@flyn.org.  I have not 
contacted him yet, because I'm trying to actually understand what it is 
that I'm doing and not just "cookbook it."  I may eventually write him.

jody
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