Handbook: 19.16 Encrypting Disk Partitionsthiago said:or a equivalent cryptographic stacked filesystem?
However, as far as I know FreeBSD's disk encryption schemes (gbde(8) and geli(8), see the Handbook as per the above link provided by SirDice) are not supported by other operating systems. If you want something that works not only with FreeBSD but also with e.g. Windows or Linux, the only remaining option that I'm aware of is TrueCrypt (security/truecrypt).xibo said:FreeBSD does storage encryption by adding an (or multiple) encryption layer(s) to the storage device layout (GEOM), which is opaque to filesystems.
fonz said:If you want something that works not only with FreeBSD but also with e.g. Windows or Linux, the only remaining option that I'm aware of is TrueCrypt (security/truecrypt).
It can do that, but it doesn't have to. It's just one of the options. Further, I am not an expert on Dropbox synchronisation but my educated guess is that whether you use filesystem-level or device-level encryption (or no encryption at all) should make no difference to Dropbox.thiago said:I've heard about truecrypt, but as far as I know it stores the entire filesystem in a single file
fonz said:It can Further, I am not an expert on Dropbox synchronisation but my educated guess is that whether you use filesystem-level or device-level encryption (or no encryption at all) should make no difference to Dropbox.
As said, I'm not a Dropbox expert TrueCrypt just came to mind as a possible alternative, but I'm sorry to hear that it doesn't play nice with Dropbox. However, feel free to report your experiences with that FUSE-alternative thingy. There will probably be people here who find it interesting to hear whether or not it works.thiago said:As I suspected, truecrypt doesn't play well with dropbox.
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It turns out there's a simple, FUSE alternative to ecryptfs(also plays well with cloud storage) that seems to work on FreeBSD
bes said:I would prefer to use PEFS instead of EncFS.