Bas Steendijk wrote:
Manuel Gomez wrote:Hi, i would like to maintain encrypt an archive in all moment, so i 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. Somebody can help me? Thank you very much, I appreciate your help.
It cannot be encrypted in memory. Oh, a whole file can be, if the whole file is loaded at once, but the buffer holding the info currently being used can't be, so there will always be a point of vulnerability. Invent a good way to obscure every byte 100% of the time, and you will be rich, rich, rich!
There are a few things that can almost do what I think you are asking, but the need to do so seems a little extreme.
Uh, some things encrypt the whole disk, but so far, disk-based encryption hasn't been too satisfactory. Some partition-level encryption is available. This may be a bit vulnerable when errors occur, meaning if the wrong bits get flipped, all your data goes bye-bye. (That is true of some file systems, and a lot of compression methods, as well.)
Uh, cryptsetup cryptmount. Maybe the ecryptfs file system? Mark Allums