OpenBSD lists <open...@leviathanresearch.net> wrote:

> For sharing encrypted data between OpenBSD and Linux, I just use an 
> OpenBSD-based file server and connect to it over NFS (using SSH to 
> secure the connection)
> 
> The file server is an old Intel Core-2 box with 4x 1 TB hard drives in a 
> softraid-5 configuration and a pair of 10 GB IDE disks for the OS using 
> hardware RAID.  I shut the machine down each night to keep the data safe.
> 
> 
> Much simpler configuration than hoping that the disk encryption software 
> stays compatible between builds (EG, the Linux version may upgrade to 
> use some kind of Linux-only technology that can't be adapted to work on 
> OpenBSD) or that the disk encryption software is even secure in the 
> first place.

This is for two reasons not of use for me: The Linux and the OpenBSD
systems are kilometers apart and the OpenBSD system is in a network
which allows no access from the internet.  So I have to transfer data
with a USB flash drive.

Also in most cases ssh does not support changing mtime of symlinks,
which is required for fast data synchronization (compare mtime
instead of readlink).  For this reason I even use USB when the two
systems are in the same network.

So it would really be great to have an up-to-date EncFS...

Carsten

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