the best disk encryption tool

mdv · 2006-06-08 18:01:17

Hi,
I was wondering what is your opinion on the issue which disk encryption tool is the best. I personally prefer encfs. Which one do you use/prefer and why?

russianpirate · 2006-06-09 03:45:27

if i need to quickly encrypt my data or hide it.. i put my hd/dvd in the microwave and set it to 1 min lol

klapmuetz · 2006-06-09 15:55:29

I've been using loop-aes for some years now.

I think that's the best..., but I'm only on pro-loopaes mailing lists. :-)
(The loop-aes guy is really good at pushing the others down... hehe.)

If you want to go with arch linux standard, you should try dm-crypt. That is supported (or is going to be supported) with mkinitcpio :-)

Reference: http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README

mdv · 2006-06-10 05:02:21

klapmuetz wrote:

If you want to go with arch linux standard, you should try dm-crypt. That is supported (or is going to be supported) with mkinitcpio :-)

Does dm-crypt requires root priviliges?

brain0 · 2006-06-13 09:42:40

mdv wrote:

klapmuetz wrote:
If you want to go with arch linux standard, you should try dm-crypt. That is supported (or is going to be supported) with mkinitcpio :-)
Does dm-crypt requires root priviliges?

It does. But afaik you can work around that with pmount.

darose · 2006-06-13 13:39:50

mdv wrote:

Hi,
I was wondering what is your opinion on the issue which disk encryption tool is the best. I personally prefer encfs. Which one do you use/prefer and why?

I like encfs too. Very easy to use, I can do it on a directory-by-directory basis as needed, and I don't need to mess with pre-allocating loopback files and making sure that they're big enough to hold all the data.

P.S. Check out the "encfssh" script in that package. I sent that in to the author and he added it to the package. (Credit where credit is due: the script is adapted from the original cfssh script from the old cfs package.)

mic64 · 2006-06-13 15:32:40

Hi

just tried out encfs. very easy to setup and use.
some nice scripts are also in the gentoo wiki
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_EncFS

But there is no way to encrypt an already existing directory, right?
I have to move them to a new one?

mic

mdv · 2006-06-13 16:43:20

mic64 wrote:

But there is no way to encrypt an already existing directory, right?
I have to move them to a new one?

Right. At least I do not know such a way.

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