Encrypted Fileserver with Bittorrent Web Interface

mistermark writes "I built a fully encrypted (samba) fileserver with a web interface for managing torrent downloads on it. All I used is OpenBSD 3.6 and its package collection, except for the TorrentFlux-interface (which you need to install separately). Anyway, it can be built using binary packages only. I included a rough HOWTO on how to make one of these yourself."

Comments

Nice

[slashalive]

Now you can seed your secret corporate documents!

why?

[Anonymous Coward]

Pertend I'm stupid, why would I want this?

Re:why?

[big_groo]

Pertend I'm stupid...

No need.

Re:why?

[caluml]

Yeah, I can't work this out either. The problem with torrents is not storing them safely, or downloading them safely. It's that when you start downloading a file using torrents, your IP address is known by the tracker which gives away the fact you're a downloader.
Sure, store them on an AES-256 encrypted filesystem, sure, use SSL for the transfer. But it doesn't help the fact that the downloaders/uploaders are known.

Also encrypted my machine

[jurt1235]

It now looks like a toaster.

Re:Piracy how-tos?

[Anonymous Coward]

ummm, are you a moron? Just because it says "torrent" does NOT mean piracy. There are many legitimate uses for bittorrent and many legitimate reason to want to encrypt files....put them together and what do you get? RTFA next time you fucking mpaa monkey.

Re:Piracy how-tos?

[Rakshasa Taisab]

Much is illegal and depending on your ethical belifs much more may be immoral. But do not assume one is a superset/subset of the other. Most you can propably say about it is that they intersect.

Obstruction of justice

[Anonymous Coward]

If the cops bust you, and you have an encrypted hard drive and you don't hand over the password, you will be charged with obstruction of justice. The maximum sentence of obstruction of justice is the same as the crime you are trying to avoid. So it really doesn't help you avoid anything.

http://www.ohiobar.org/pub/lycu/index.asp?articlei d=138

Re:Obstruction of justice

[Albinofrenchy]

Password? Encrypted? Officer, those files aren't encrypted, they are just randomly generated files I made... On a more serious note, it would be a nice safety feature if that when a certain wrong password was typed in, it would show an unencrypted version of something completely legal.

Be very, very careful when using EFS!!!

[Futurepower(R)]

Be very, very careful when using the Windows XP built-in file encryption, called EFS (Encryping File System).

EFS is very poorly documented. The encryption is tied to your user password in a way that is apparently not documented. EFS depends on being part of a Windows 2003 Server domain in a way that is not clearly documented; if you are using Windows XP on a stand alone computer, there are situations in which you will lose your files forever.

Microsoft technical support agrees with what I just said, and provides no help or fixes.

The official Microsoft forums contain the complaints of many people who have lost their files due to problems with EFS. One man said he lost 11 years of research.

People complain about Microsoft every day on Slashdot, but I've never seen a discussion by anyone who seemed to realize how bad Microsoft truly is.

Re:Be very, very careful when using EFS!!!

[Universal Indicator]

11 years of research without a single backup? Sounds like the person was asking for it!

Re:Be very, very careful when using EFS!!!

[LnxAddct]

Perhaps he was encrypting his backups because of the nature of the research.
Regards,
Steve

Website Fried

[QBasicer]

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