On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 09:39:52AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > Hi all, > I'm looking for a way to recreate the functionality of PGP Disk (under > Win32). Basically, create an encrypted file, which contains a filesystem > which can then be mounted in any mount point. > > I know I can use GELI in FreeBSD 6 - as I understand, it performs the > encryption at the partition level (the whole partition is encrypted). > I'd like to be able to simply unmount my 'secure volume', and be able to > back it up as a whole, or move it to another computer without having to > repartition the destination. I think GELI wouldn't be good for this.
GELI or GBDE are probably what you're looking for, you just need to use mdconfig to create a vnode (file) backed disk image which you will encrypt and then create a file system on. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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