Re: [gentoo-user] Encripting /home

[Jerry McBride]

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

On another twist, I was using my own cryptoloop setup untill I tripped over 
encfs. I use it every where now, docs are on the home site of the encfs 
author.

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