On 2007-10-08, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So you mean you have a /home partition, which contains an encrypted
> image, and then you mount the encrypted image over top of your /home?
> Because that's what I was thinking / what I think is being asked about.
I have /home partition. I
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:23:42PM +0300, Timo Myyrd wrote:
> Which would be a better method, the separate image or encrypt whole
> partition and how to encrypt whole partition on OpenBSD?
in -current its possible to encrypt partitions through the use of
svnds with vnconfig:
(example)
# vnconf
On 10/8/07, Alexey Vatchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-10-06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > #note: the image file should be available somewhere that isn't /home,
> > obviously... you may be able to have a /home with it on there and then
> > mount over that and it migh
On 2007-10-06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *The* way to make encrypted disks on OpenBSD is through vnconfig -k.
> Go read up on that and come back.
> Then here's what you can do (it's dead simple):
> # vnconfig -k svnd0 /path/to/image
> # mount /dev/svnd0 /home
>
> #note: the image
On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just trying that but the slice encryption could use some instructions
> how to get the proper C/H/S -values. I tried quickly your factor method
> and got a errors from fdisk that those were incorrect and I've been
> searching the net for some help
On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Guenther wrote:
> > On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Nick Guenther wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mou
Nick Guenther wrote:
On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nick Guenther wrote:
On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options
of the image that are needed to succesfully mount the partition
Just trying that but the slice encryption could use some instructions
how to get the proper C/H/S -values. I tried quickly your factor method
and got a errors from fdisk that those were incorrect and I've been
searching the net for some help on how to calculate the proper values
for my home sli
On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Guenther wrote:
> > On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options
> >> of the image that are needed to succesfully mount the partition on boot
> >> but didn
Nick Guenther wrote:
On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options
of the image that are needed to succesfully mount the partition on boot
but didn't reveal if there's a method to encrypt whole partition. I know
it w
On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options
> of the image that are needed to succesfully mount the partition on boot
> but didn't reveal if there's a method to encrypt whole partition. I know
> it will give me sma
On 10/6/07, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/6/07, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > are you sure you want to encrypt your *whole* drive though?
>
> Yes. (says the guy who left his laptop in an airport last week)
>
> > Is your
> > data really that secret?
>
> Why is that i
On 10/6/07, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> are you sure you want to encrypt your *whole* drive though?
Yes. (says the guy who left his laptop in an airport last week)
> Is your
> data really that secret?
Why is that important? AKA "it's my laptop, and I will explicitly
choose to disc
I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options
of the image that are needed to succesfully mount the partition on boot
but didn't reveal if there's a method to encrypt whole partition. I know
it will give me small performance hit to encrypt whole partition but it
shoul
Nick Guenther wrote:
On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm just trying to encrypt my laptops /home partition to hide my
personal info if the worst happens and my lappy is stolen.
I'm wondering what would be the best method to encrypt the hard drive? I
saw some discussion on t
On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm just trying to encrypt my laptops /home partition to hide my
> personal info if the worst happens and my lappy is stolen.
>
> I'm wondering what would be the best method to encrypt the hard drive? I
> saw some discussion on the mailing list re
I'm just trying to encrypt my laptops /home partition to hide my
personal info if the worst happens and my lappy is stolen.
I'm wondering what would be the best method to encrypt the hard drive? I
saw some discussion on the mailing list recently and somebody pointed
out that I could encrypt wh
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