Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:

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> carlopmart wrote:

>> Guillaume Duali wrote:

>>> Hello,

>>> perhaps this HowTo will help you ?

>>>

>>> http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/797/openbsd-encrypted-nas-howto

>>>

>>> See you :)

>>> Guillaume.

>>> ---

>>> carlopmart a icrit :

>>>> Hi all,

>>>>

>>>>  How can I encrypt a whole partition with OpenBSD 4.1 or

>>>> 4.2-current?? I  only info about encrypt image files and not

>>>> partitions ....

>>>>

>>>> many thanks.

>>>>

>>>

>> In this howto only explains howto encrypt sparse files and not

>> partitions ..

>>

>

> the technique in the article does not only apply to sparse files. have

> an encrypted /var on some of my webservers and the procedure is

> identical to what's in the link further down (starts with the dd-ing of

> an image file).

>

> do note it's not possible to encrypt all partitions using vnconfig. for

> the time being this is the best you can do: encrypt images and mount

> them after using vnconfig.

>

>

Thanks jacob, but  I have received an email from openbsd's developer

that it isn't possible to encrypt partitions or disks ... only image

files created by dd command ...

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CL Martinez

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