[nycbug-talk] OpenBSD Crypto Disk Question

Ray Lai nycbug at cyth.net
Thu Jan 11 17:37:19 EST 2007


On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:26:20PM -0500, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> Isaac Levy wrote:
> > 
> > I'm wondering this:
> > 
> > Is there any reliable way to make an encrypted volume on OpenBSD on  
> > the fly?  (like on FreeBSD, using disk images (file-backed memory  
> > disks).
> > 
> > I've got a stock 4.0 install on a box, and now want to stuff some  
> > data on an encrypted volume.
> 
> On OpenBSD, I think this is svnd(4), which is prepared with vnconfig(8). 
>   AFAIR, it does only Blowfish encryption.

While having more choices would be nice, please don't read that as
"blowfish is insecure."

-Ray-



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