On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:43:46AM +0100, Harry Palmer wrote:
> > Have you considered softraid crypto?
>
> Thanks for this independent advice. Looks like it works at the block
> device level which must be better.
>
> I must say that while the official openbsd documentation I've seen is
> second to none, there seems to be relatively little information out
> there on data encryption (compared to the biblical tombs on the subject
> in the linux world). I tend to look through practiacal examples and
> tutorials when I try something new, and the one I found for this was
> three years old.
The OpenBSD culture is not one of HOWTOs. You'll have to read the
man pages and FAQ to get the information, I'm afraid.
> What I'm trying to acheive is to stripe a few of these 300GB disks
> together and encrypt the resulting large volume.
Easy enough, just create a softraid CRYPTO volume on top of a softraid
RAID-0 volume. Do keep good backups, including of the key you use.
Joachim
