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Hi Dale, I looked at Veracrypt and ran into the fact that it on windows |
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Veracrypt MUST be installed by an administrator which is a blocker for |
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using USB keys on computers I don't control (such as transporting files |
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securely between locations - i.e., where there is potential to lose the |
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usb key): |
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see |
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https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Using%20VeraCrypt%20Without%20Administrator%20Privileges.html |
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BillK |
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On 6/7/20 12:49 pm, Dale wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> Howdy, |
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>> As some know, I been playing with encryption recently. I got doing |
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>> it on the command line and using veracrypt for USB sticks down. I |
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>> use Veracrypt for those that I want to work on windoze as well, I |
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>> hope anyway. Now I'm moving on to something else. |
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>> Now that I have a spare drive, I want to encrypt it and have a mount |
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>> point for it, /home/dale/documents for example. What I'd like to do, |
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>> when I login in, it asks me for the encryption password and then |
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>> mounts it. When I log out, it reverses. I'm not doing all of /home |
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>> because I want to separate some info. I may do it later. |
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>> I did some googling but maybe my search terms aren't good enough. I |
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>> mostly find for /home as a whole but not separate parts of it. When |
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>> I add in Gentoo does some things differently, it may be that this |
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>> isn't even doable. Also, my user password and password for the |
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>> encryption will be different. I'm using KDE but anything that will |
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>> work as part of KDE or along with KDE will be fine with me. |
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>> Does anyone have a howto they can link to? Is this even doable? |
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>> Thanks. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Digging around I found these. |
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> [ebuild N ~] sys-fs/ecryptfs-utils-111_p20170609::gentoo USE="gtk |
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> nls pam -doc -gpg -openssl -pkcs11 -python -suid -tpm" |
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> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" 1,401 KiB |
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> [ebuild N ] sys-fs/cryptmount-5.3.2::gentoo USE="gcrypt |
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> largefile luks nls openssl udev -argv0switch -cswap -fsck -mount |
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> (-selinux) -systemd" 533 KiB |
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> Looking at the info I've found tho, I don't think it will do what I'm |
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> looking for. Has anyone used either of these in the past? If so, |
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> does one of these do what I'm looking for? |
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> I'm surprised someone hasn't come up with this before. Surely I'm not |
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> the only one who would like a automatic way to decrypt, mount, umount |
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> and encrypt with some sort of automated process. Sort of like a USB |
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> stick only with encryption. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |