On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Joseph L. CasaleJCasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
Anyone got any experience/suggestions for a way to store a directory of sensitive information on a CentOS box? This directory contains many scripts and output files, I need it backed up but not unencrypted and don't want to store it in a tar file type archive as when it needs to be accessed and have scripts executed/data generated, it needs to be untarred/unencrypted and I don't know the ramifications of this wrt recovery once its retarred and deleted. I was hoping it could be stored somehow such that it was decrypted on the fly when needed by entering a pass/keyphrase before use.
Thus it could be backed up and remain encrypted. Is dm-crypt the simplest option here?
I kinda dig the FUSE encryption module:
http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/05/29/encrypting-data-with-the-fuse-...
Easy to set up, and works like a charm.
Hope this helps, - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net