Re: Encrypt file while you are using it
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 05:30:46PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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> Manuel Gomez wrote:
> > Hi, i would like to maintain encrypt an archive in all moment, so i
>
> If it is to remain encrypted in any moment in time, you should just use
> a very complicated password and forget it immediately. Your data should
> remain encrypted forever....
>
> > would like to know what software can be this.
> >
> > Now i am using Truecrypt, but when i mount the encrypted directory it's
> > vulnerable. I want to mount the file and that the file can remains
> > encrypt.
>
> If I understand you correctly, you would like to read the file, while it
> still is encrypted? How should this possibly work?
Hello,
I think that cfs and encfs does what you are asking for.
cheers
graziano
>
> > Somebody can help me?
>
> If you would like to access your encrypted files one by one (instead of
> mounting an encrypted archive) you could encrypt each file separately.
> 'gpg' (package: gnupg) is one program that could be used for this.
>
> If you use 'cryptsetup', your whole partition (including the file
> system) will be encrypted (and remain encrypted all the time). After
> issuing the password, all data will be decrypted/encrypted on the fly.
>
> - From what you wrote, it's not fully clear to me, what exactly you try to
> achieve.
>
> HTH anyway,
>
> Johannes
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