[CentOS] Cryptographic Filesystem

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Fri Feb 2 05:27:41 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:23 -0600, Barry Brimer wrote:
> > Anyone else using CFS on CentOS 4.4 ?
> > I have started using it today (unimportant stuff for now, for testing),
> > and am wondering what are other people experiences with it.
> >
> > I'm using version 1.4.1, rpms kindly provided by Karan on his repository.
> >
> > My main concern is data loss, not security itself. From what I noticed,
> > the strenght of CFS crypto is less than optimal.
> >
> > CFS right now looks like a very convenient solution. Much easier than the
> > losetup stuff (which is a PITA).
> 
> I have not tried TrueCrypt yet, only read about it.  Maybe it would be 
> useful as well. 
> <http://www.truecrypt.org>

Truecrypt is the only cross platform crypt system/software I know about.
However, last I check, it is not FOSSware. It's only FreeWare.

Truecypt again, uses a file as a storage block.




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