Another suggestion: I keep all (several hundred) of my id's, passwords, pins, etc etc on n usb-stick. The stick has two partitions, One protected with a passphrase, and a unprotected area. I have to remember only one passpharase, and can open it on any of my linux boxes, either at home or at work.
A very handy utility to create these kinds of encrypted volumes is truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/ It's for windows, but it's very nice and convenient. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
mourik jan heupink wrote:
A very handy utility to create these kinds of encrypted volumes is truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/
It's for windows, but it's very nice and convenient.
TrueCrypt is for Windows _AND_ Linux. Official TrueCrypt site has even binaries for OpenSUSE and Duncan MacVicar maintains TrueCrypt in BuildService (project security:privacy). I have never tried it, though. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
thanks except I wasn't looking for encryption, just a root password that is checked in and checked out and one time -----Original Message----- From: Pavol Rusnak [mailto:prusnak@suse.cz] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 3:40 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Password vaulting mourik jan heupink wrote:
A very handy utility to create these kinds of encrypted volumes is truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/
It's for windows, but it's very nice and convenient.
TrueCrypt is for Windows _AND_ Linux. Official TrueCrypt site has even binaries for OpenSUSE and Duncan MacVicar maintains TrueCrypt in BuildService (project security:privacy). I have never tried it, though. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
A very handy utility to create these kinds of encrypted volumes is truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/
It's for windows, but it's very nice and convenient.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's not correct. Truecrypt has command line only version for Linux (Creation of GUI for Linux is in developer's TDB list). I'm using it both on Linux and Windows and it is very convenient. You can access encrypted volume on any platform. E.g I have encrypted volume on USB Disk On Key and I can mount it in Windows or in Linux. It allows encryption of the whole partition or of the file, that serves as "container" for encrypted volume. -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
There are some deficiencies though. The lack of access control list
application is first in mind.
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On Dec 6, 2007, at 2:44 PM, "Mark Goldstein"
A very handy utility to create these kinds of encrypted volumes is truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/
It's for windows, but it's very nice and convenient.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's not correct. Truecrypt has command line only version for Linux (Creation of GUI for Linux is in developer's TDB list). I'm using it both on Linux and Windows and it is very convenient. You can access encrypted volume on any platform. E.g I have encrypted volume on USB Disk On Key and I can mount it in Windows or in Linux. It allows encryption of the whole partition or of the file, that serves as "container" for encrypted volume.
-- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Mark Goldstein wrote:
A very handy utility to create these kinds of encrypted volumes is truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/
It's for windows, but it's very nice and convenient. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's not correct. Truecrypt has command line only version for Linux (Creation of GUI for Linux is in developer's TDB list). I'm using it
If you need a GUI version, just front-end it with a tcl script.
both on Linux and Windows and it is very convenient. You can access encrypted volume on any platform. E.g I have encrypted volume on USB Disk On Key and I can mount it in Windows or in Linux. It allows encryption of the whole partition or of the file, that serves as "container" for encrypted volume.
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On Dec 6, 2007 11:23 PM, Aaron Kulkis
Mark Goldstein wrote: ...
That's not correct. Truecrypt has command line only version for Linux (Creation of GUI for Linux is in developer's TDB list). I'm using it
If you need a GUI version, just front-end it with a tcl script.
Not too much, I manage with command line and aliaces, but yes, I'm trying to create some Perl-Tk script. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007 21:25:34 schrieb mourik jan heupink:
Another suggestion: I keep all (several hundred) of my id's, passwords, pins, etc etc on n usb-stick. The stick has two partitions, One protected with a passphrase, and a unprotected area. I have to remember only one passpharase, and can open it on any of my linux boxes, either at home or at work.
A very handy utility to create these kinds of encrypted volumes is truecrypt. http://www.truecrypt.org/
It's for windows, but it's very nice and convenient.
Linux is supported too, since release 4.0! It's an opensource application, which makes it even sweeter :) Greetings Michael
I have been wondering about using some kind of password vault, so I was looking at truecrypt. there is a RPM file for Suse, but the documentation is for Windose, and has frames etc. I m a command line user, and so far I have not worked out how to create an encrypted object. The help tells me how to mount one, but so far I have not got one! ==John ffitch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Feb 13, 2008 2:25 PM, jpff
I have been wondering about using some kind of password vault, so I was looking at truecrypt. there is a RPM file for Suse, but the documentation is for Windose, and has frames etc. I m a command line user, and so far I have not worked out how to create an encrypted object. The help tells me how to mount one, but so far I have not got one!
==John ffitch
To tell the truth, I created my encrypted volumes under MS Win and then used them in Linux, so have no experience with volume creation from command line. But just recently (Feb 05) truecrypt released new version (5.0), that contains full GUI for Linux, equivalent to that of MS Win. So if you are not in situation where you can't use GUI at all, try it. BTW, truecrypt is much more than "password vault" (there are kwallet, MyPasswordSafe and I guess more applications for that). Regards, -- Mark Goldstein -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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