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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)!"

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  1. Paranoid Android? by fionbio · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why do you think that Marvin's brain was running NetBSD? Otherwise, what use could he make of a laptop, with his "brain the size of a planet" ?

  2. Re:*BSD? by TheBogie · · Score: 2, Funny

    It seems this AC has made a convincing argument for using XP as opposed to FreeBSD. Since I don't really know anything about FreeBSD, could some expert please offer a rebuttal of this AC's arguments? I know it seems like feeding the trolls, but I never see any real answer to any of these issues.

  3. Re:What a Load by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Karma be damned, but I'm sick of people who use phrases without thinking what they actually mean.

    Karma can not be damned, it is only a state of being.

    --
    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson