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Alphons "Fonz" van Werven asked

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> Are there any means of encrypting filesystems other than using cryptfs

> plus vnode? As far as I could find out, the latter imposes a size limit

> of roughly 8GB which is acceptable for most partitions but not all of

> them.

It may not be what you want, but cfs (ports/packages) is a cryptographic

filesystem which runs outside the kernel.  It works at the _file_ level

(on top of a standard filesystem), with encryption keys specified on

a per-directory-tree basis, so doesn't care about the filesystem size.

I've been using cfs for about 15 years (first 7 on SunOS, last 8 on

OpenBSD), and am generally happy with it.
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