Re: How to use encrypted folder (or filesystem)

[CABROL PERALES Alexandre <alexandre dot cabrol-perales at adssi dot fr>]

Brian Mathis a écrit :
> On Jan 9, 2008 10:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
> <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > CABROL PERALES Alexandre wrote:
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > i'm using Cygwin Easy version on an usb disk.
> > This is really a question that is more appropriately directed towards the
> > maintainers of "Cygwin Easy", since that's a separate project and anything
> > we might say here may not be appropriate for "Cygwin Easy".   That said...
> >
> > > I would like to kow if we can use encrypted FileSystem or folder with
> > > cygwin.
> > >
> > > e.g.:
> > > mount -t vfat info.img info/ -oencrypted=aes128
> > >
> > > or another way.
> > Cygwin is not Linux (or Unix or BSD or....)  It has no file-system drivers
> > and relies on Windows to provide file access.  Translation - you cannot
> > mount a file system with Cygwin like you show above.  Cygwin's mount is
> > not too much more than a mapping of Windows-style paths to POSIX ones.
> >
> > > Purpose:
> > > be able to use mobile cygwin with an encrypted device (partition,
> > > folder, fs image) without have to alter hoster system (no modifications
> > > on the operating system, even on c: drive).
> > >
> > > Do you have any idea?
> > In general, if you can do it with Windows, you should be able to do it
> > with Cygwin and that may translate into being able to do it with "Cygwin
> > Easy".  But to do it with Windows means you need an NTFS file system on
> > your USB disk.  If that's a problem for you, then I believe you have
> > provided the answer to yourself. ;-)
> >
> > --
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>
>
> Though not part of cygwin, truecrypt is an excellent and open source
> utility that will allow you to make and encrypted disk.  Then you can
> install whatever you like on it.
>
> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>
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I tryed TrueCrypt but Security Policy on my professional laptop forbid 
use of it own driver.

I tryed too Cross Crypt but the problem is the  fact that this tool need 
to modify register.

Any other idea?


Thanks for your help.
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