On the fly partition encrytption

quozl · 1999-08-01 18:23:00

Hi Lads, is it possible to run an on the fly encryption of your linux partition? ie as you use files they are decoded by a daemon as you need them. So that only if you logged in as a valid user could you access the files. its too easy to mount a linux partition from even a floppy disk and get access to everything. I din't…

01-08-1999 07:23PM

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quozl

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Hi Lads,
is it possible to run an on the fly encryption of your linux partition? ie as you use files they are decoded by a daemon as you need them. So that only if you logged in as a valid user could you access the files.
its too easy to mount a linux partition from even a floppy disk and get access to everything. I din't need hugely impressive encryption, jsut enough to discourage casual inquirers
Oh and I've seen exactly this done by viruses under ms-dos so it cannt be too hard a task
Quozl

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my mate wrote a small shell script that will actually do something like this, his was on a smaller scale.. just his own user directory like, but it should be possible.. i'll get on to him

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