Re: encrypted file systems on/for solaris

[lglaze@iddg.com]

Many moons ago (1997 era) there was a package called "cryptfs". I don't know if 
it is still supported or not since I haven't used it in several years. The way 
it worked was you created a directory with the cryptfs commands. Then you could 
put files in that directory. Once you were finished you could encrypt the 
directory with a hash. You couldn't use anything on the directory until it was 
decrypted again (it all looked like garbage until then, including the 
filenames). 

Not sure if that is exactly what you are after or not...

Larry

> On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:36:53PM -0500, Joseph Boyer Jr. wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > does anyone know of an encrypted file system for solari?. If so can you
> > kindly pass along any info. Do ask why I need such animal, I just have
> > been ask to research if one exists.
> 
> I think there was one for linux, that needed a "mount file as filesystem"
> capability (and ran at userlevel, maybe)
> 
> now that solaris 8 has that capability, maybe the linux one could be
> usable.
> sorry, dont know the name of it.
>