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On Wednesday 27 July 2005 07:54 pm, Luigi Pinna wrote: |
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> Alle 01:18, giovedì 28 luglio 2005, Pupeno ha scritto: |
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> > Hello, |
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> > I want to have the /home of my laptop encripted, with an external key |
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> > (in a CD or floppy, until I get an usb pain drive), specially to be |
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> > able to change the passphrase easily and have various medias with |
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> > different passphrases and the same key (so, my wife can uses her own |
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> > passphrase), is this possible ? it'll be the non written 13th item |
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> > here: |
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> > http://www.sdc.org/~leila/usb-dongle/readme.html, right ? |
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> > Any docs that explains how to achieve this (as close as possible to |
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> > Gentoo). Thanks. |
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> I have my home encrypt... |
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> But I cannot change the passphrase! |
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> I use the dm-crypt from the kernel.... |
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> With these options, I can create a dynamic passphrase... |
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> /bin/cryptsetup -h ripemd160 -c aes create home /path/device |
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> You don't need a key (that someone can keep and force) but the key is |
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> created from the passphrase: that means that without that word works |
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> nothing,but you need a good password (and please, don't write it on the |
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> monitor ;-) ...) |
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> cryptsetup is in portage tree, dm-crypt option is in the kernel... |
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> See you, |
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> Luigi |
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On another twist, I was using my own cryptoloop setup untill I tripped over |
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encfs. I use it every where now, docs are on the home site of the encfs |
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author. |
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