encrypted file systems

[Gregory Nowak]

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Well, 20 years may be over-doing it (smile). Making a standard iso
image, with the encrypted fs as a file on the disk is what I meant to
do in the first place, perhaps I could have been clearer on what I
wanted to do. The livecd idea is one I hadn't considered, I'll give it
a thought.

Greg


On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:48:00PM -0700, Shane wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:00:00PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > I'm wondering which encryption method to use. Ideally, I'd like to be
> > able to read this back 20 years from now, and it would be nice to
> > access this in windows as well, though that's not a requirement, since
> > I expect gnu/linux to be around for a long while (smile). 
> 
> If you are seriously wanting to read this back in 20 years,
> you may want to have the cd in standard iso format with the
> crypted fs stored as a file on the cd.  Also, it might be a
> good idea to have sort of livecd rescue setup on the same
> cd in the event dm_crypt changes in some incompatable way.
> 
> Ideally though, I wouldn't expect anything like this to be
> readable in 20 years.  Just migrate the data as
> technologies evolve.  Also, there's no guarantee a cd-r
> disc will last 20 years unless you intend to have the cds
> pressed.
> 
> > tested, according to the cryptoloop howto. I'm wondering
> > then which one I should use for the long term, any
> > suggestions?
> 
> I use dm_crypt over here and it's been working well for
> around seven months.  Granted usage has been fairly light. 
> Since cryptoloop is deprecated and may well be removed from
> a future kernel, I'd go with dm_crypt especially with that
> 20 year readability requirement.
> 
> Good luck,
> Shane
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