Partition encryption...

that actually works and doesn't take years to set up!

[j4mes]

Hey,

Possibly not the most webmastery thing, but I figured I'd get more response here than in Foo ;-)

I'm after a means of encrypting a partition that isn't insanely complicated (I just want to use it like a normal drive) and preferably doesn't need me to recompile a kernel because I'm lazy (unless that's the best way).

My distro of choice is Slackware, and I wondered if anyone had any ideas that I/Google may have missed?

Cheers,

James.

[MattyMoose]

IIRC, Linux has tonnes of encryption routines built in, and several filesystems that apply encryption to them. Look around for some, the only ones I could recommend that's portable to linux that I've used is CFS -- Not bad, a little clunky, but it's OK. Otherwise, I use GBDE for freebsd: [freebsd.org...]

If I remember anything else from my linux days, I'll post back. ;)

Edit: I should note as well that you don't have to destroy any data. You can usually experiment with things on a loopback FS, that way, anything goes wrong, you're still OK. :)

[j4mes]

Hi MattyMoose, thanks for your feedback :-)

I took a look at CFS, but it looks as though its really meant for Red Hat, but I'll look a bit more into it.

If anyone else has some ideas, I'll explain what I'm trying to do:

I've got quite a large number of fairly hefty customer DBs which I want to back up, but I figured they ought to be encrypted since if they were stolen it would look very bad for me (lots of personal details, account information, etc.) however, I still need to be able to quickly access (and most likely modify) the files, so using PGP, etc., really isn't practical.

Has anyone else had this sort of propblem, and what did you do about it?

Thanks again,

James.