harddisk encryption with gpg?

Julian T J Midgley jtjm@xenoclast.org
Fri Nov 8 14:55:01 2002


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On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Juergen Schlag wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if it is possible to encrypt a harddisk partition
> or a disk image file with gnupg. Or does anybody know a tool for
> mounting an (encrypted) image file as a virtual drive letter
> (with Windows) or as a new mountpoint (with Linux/Unix); something
> like pgpdisk, but platform independed?

GPG isn't the right tool for this - have a look at CryptoAPI for
encrypted filesystem (and swap, if you wish) support on GNU/Linux:

http://www.kerneli.org/index.php

Julian

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Julian T. J. Midgley                       http://www.xenoclast.org/
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