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Re: CFS vs. loopback encryption (was Re: [open-source] File encryption)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Mon Feb 4 12:43:53 2002

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Date: 4 Feb 2002 17:30:52 GMT
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In article <56A53A20-175F-11D6-9052-000393471DA8@pobox.com>,
Nicholas Brawn  <ncb@pobox.com> wrote:
>What are people's thoughts on CFS vs. loopback encryption? I've used CFS 
>in the past and found it quite useful, though as Matt said - a little 
>long in the tooth. Never really looked into loopback encryption (which 
>I'm aware is not something present across the majority of Unixes).

I use loopback encryption on Linux (loop-aes.sourceforge.net).
I'm very happy with it.  I have it encrypting data with a passphrase
and swap with a random key.

   - Ian

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