On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Joseph L. Casale<JCasale at 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-encryption-module/ Easy to set up, and works like a charm. Hope this helps, - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net