Hey,
Jonathan Thornburg schrieb:

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> Alphons "Fonz" van Werven asked

>> 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.

I never ran into a partition size limit with vnconfig on OpenBSD...

largest currently encrypted HDD is a 160 GB secondary notebook drive,

all one partition, containing a traveling backup of some stuff. ;-)
cfs on the other hand... never really got it to work reliable.
Michael