I've read things that allude to a lack of support...

"Much like support for RAID-5, support for encrypted filesystems is
experimental." - Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition (2013), page 166.

But a better source than this slowly aging tome is the more regularly
updated website:

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE

Which seems to indicate FDE is supported (unless you are also doing RAID on
the same device).

All-in-all... I can see how some admins might feel like they sometimes get
mixed signals.


On Mar 24, 2017 6:43 AM, "Stuart Henderson" <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:

On 2017-03-22, Jan Betlach <jbetl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks a lot for quick responses. Primarily I need to protect the laptop
> against losing/stealing it. Therefore FDE would be ideal, however I've red
> somewhere that FDE is not officially supported on OpenBSD.

Any idea where you read that?

FDE with bioctl/softraid crypto is expected to work.

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