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Hi List, |
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Doesn't really belong here, but security seems dead, so... |
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I'm planning on encrypting a 1TB usb-disc that I have, for |
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preserved storage. |
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I've been reading a lot about fde and the other various |
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approaches towards encryption, and most of them do much more than I |
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really need/want. I don't need plausible deniability, and I don't need |
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a fully encrypted OS. |
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I do however have certain usage scenarios, for my setup. |
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As mentioned above, the disk I want encrypted is a usb device, so it's |
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removable. |
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This among other things requires the encryption method to be usable |
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from multiple machines but also from multiple OSes (Windows and Linux). |
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Now from what I've been reading, there are basically two ways of doing |
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this. TrueCrypt and dm-crypt together with freeotfe on windows. |
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The main issue is obviously the filesystem. |
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As far as I understand it, both methods work 'atop' any filesystem that |
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the underlying OS supports. |
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Because I want both windows and linux support, this would mean vfat, |
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ntfs, or ext2(3,4??). |
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Now as I run x86_64 for both linux and windows I'm not to sure about |
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all this. |
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I have a working ext driver running in read-only mode under windows, |
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but I wouldn't know how well it'll play when using encryption. |
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There are two possibilities I know of, http://www.fs-driver.org/ and |
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http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/index.htm, me using the latter due to |
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problems I had with the first due to 64bit compatibility. |
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Another mayor question is dataloss. |
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The usb-disc has 1TB, would it make sense to maybe have more than one |
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partition, both from a performance and reliability standpoint? |
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Has anyone here a similar setup/usage of disc-encryption? |
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Any thoughts on the matter? |
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Tom |