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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:15:59 -0800
From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: cnielsen@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [9fans] writing code
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:59:50 -0800, Christopher Nielsen
<cnielsen@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 11:49:43AM -0800, David Leimbach wrote:
> > > To prevent this you either need to prevent someone from booting
> > > (ie. bios password and hope they dont go through the trouble
> > > of yanking the drive or resetting the bios) or you need to
> > > protect the disk (after all thats probably what they want to
> > > get at after they log in, not network access or the gui).
> > > Something like:
> > >
> > >     http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/bsdcon-03.gbde.paper.pdf
> > >
> > > would address this nicely.  For those who don't want to chase
> > > down the paper, it's an encrypted disk format used by the
> > > FreeBSD group.
> > >
> >
> > Isn't it actually a block-level encryption rather than a filesystem
> > implementation?
>
> yes. that's exactly what it is. how is that not useful in this
> case?
>
>

Why would you assume that I'd think it's not useful?