i'm obviously missing something here. could you explain why it is a bad idea to have two files, the key and salt, which would be used to initially mount the regular file, then securely deleted from the host and only re-introduced to the host when decryption/remounting is required. and also, for us luddites, how do you read the password on stdin.
in great expectations, poncenby On Wed Apr 25 9:07 , Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:47:00PM +0100, poncenby wrote: >> List, >> >> Are there plans to change vnconfig so it will accept a file for the key when >> -K >> is specified? >> I notice there was a patch put up to misc in 2004, does anyone know if there >> is a >> patch for 4.0? > >vnconfig in -current, at least, already accepts a -S option to specify >the salt file. Changing vnconfig to read the password on stdin is easy, >but you should really ask yourself if that is a good idea. > > Joachim > >-- >TFMotD: ssh-keyscan (1) - gather ssh public keys > > >-- >This email has been verified as Virus free >Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net
