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Re: [Sheflug] USB Hard disks and off site storage file security



On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:53, Jens Thomas wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I don't really know anything about this, as I only stumbled on this 
> whilst looking into loopback devices when I was trying to make my a boot 
> disk. However you might find:
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO.html
> 

I justt got around to implementing this last weekend to protect some of
the documents that I work on at home. It is working well. 
I haven't done much other than what is in the document.

I used a dd to create a file, and mounted as a loop device, however the
same principle should apply to an entire partition.

-- 
Regards,
Adam Allen.

adam [at] dynamicinteraction.co.uk
pgp http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x553349DB

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