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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. TrueCrypt for WIndows and Linux. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Informative

    TrueCrypt is disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux. Version 4.1 was released last month. It seems to have been designed by people who are VERY serious about encryption. For example, TrueCrypt "provides two levels of plausible deniability".

    1. Re:TrueCrypt for WIndows and Linux. by trifish · · Score: 5, Informative

      You forgot to write a very important thing:

      TrueCrypt is open source and free (as in freedom and beer).

  2. of course it helps... by advocate_one · · Score: 5, Interesting

    if you remember to encrypt any partitions that temporary data might possibly reside on... cos it would be awfully silly to protect your home partition and forget /var or /tmp or the swap... why not be completely paranoid and encrypt the the volatile "partition" that gets created in memory

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