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NetBSD's Crypto-Graphic Disk

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-you-crack-me-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Security-minded laptop users live in fear of theft, not only of their computer but also of their precious secret data. NetBSD's CGD project is a cryptographic virtual disk that can protect sensitive data while acting like a normal filesystem. Recently its author, Roland Dowdeswell, was interviewed and provided a lot of details, and made a comparison with Linux's Loop-AES, FreeBSD's GBDE, OpenBSD's svnd. This is a must-read for any laptop owner (and paranoid androids)!"

4 of 219 comments (clear)

  1. Same as Linux's loop-aes? by Aurix · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This appears to be the same as linux's cryptoloop (loop-aes, etc), or am I missing something?

    It's nothing really special, until it's implemented so laptop users can easily set up an encrypted root filesystem and be able to boot into it easily.

  2. Re:mutually exclusive? by BokLM · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    But what of those of us that have to use windows, or Mac OS X?

    Thoses who use windows don't care about security, or they would be running something else. They don't need that.

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  3. Re:*BSD? by Secrity · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who is "AC"? Arguments and opinions are just like assholes, everybody has one. Install FreeBSD on a spare box and play with it for a while if you want to know something about FreeBSD.

  4. Re:mutually exclusive? by xxdesmus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you ladies are so funny if your useless off topic posts. go back your *nix fanboys sites.