Encrypting a secondary hard drive

hampton275 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 104

I would like to encrypt a secondary hard drive for storing packet logs, etc. I have looked around and done some searches and most people are saying I should encrypt the whole system. This seems a little over-kill and that just the seperate disc would be fine.
I would like people's opinions and if possible some links to some good how-to's on the solutions for this.

TIA

patrickbores · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:34 am Post subject:

Never done this myself, but you probably want to encrypt a filesystem on the drive. This article explains the process:

http://www.linux.com/howtos/Loopback-Encrypted-Filesystem-HOWTO.shtml

I believe the 2.6 kernel and newer versions of the required userland binaries will have support for loopback encryption by default, but things are not there yet.

HTH,

Patrick
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patrickbores · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:38 am Post subject:

I just noticed that article says it doesn't apply to modern Linux systems. But filesystem encryption using the loopback device is definitely the way to go. If I run into a better article, I'll post it. Linux Journal (magazine) had a good article on this a few months ago.

Patrick
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patrickbores · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:40 am Post subject:

Here's that LJ article:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6481

It's about encrypting home directories, but the same concepts apply.

Patrick
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