-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-11-30 at 09:01 +0100, Paco Cruz wrote:
Now I guess I have to create a new '5' method for DVDs using LUKS, which I hope will last longer, as the options are written inside somehow :-)
Don't you think that it would be more convenient (and a lot of less troublesome) to copy all those four DVDs to new ones encrypted with LUKS? Do you have to access them through a disparate number of systems? You could set up a proxy to access the new LUKS-encrypted ones.
Just my two cents :-)
Ya... But copying over, I don't know, perhaps a hundred DVDs, at... half an hour a disk, perhaps one hour, that's about two weeks fully dedicated to this. Quite more if I run par2verify on them, too. They are only used on a single machine, although before reading them on a different computer was just a question of creating an fstab line. Now it is more complex. If it were for a business and somebody else paid, I'd search for an autofeeding DVD reader/writer. I haven't ever seen them, but I knew these things existed for floppies: you fed them a stack of floppies, and it would autofeed and write them all. Or manually, I'd write a script to make it easier... still, it would take some time: several months, I wouldn't be looking at the machine all the time. Not so simple! :-) And who says in three years they don't invent something new, eh? Ah, progress... we should pay developers to stay at home watching TV sipping coffee or whatever, leaving the software alone :-P If I had to move that data somewhere else, I'd probably copy it to an encrypted external HD on USB, maybe duplicated on two disks. Far easier to manage. Theoretically optical media is more durable than magnetic media (no electronics, not vulnerable to em fields), but in actual fact, things are not so clear cut. There is dust, scratches, certain bacteria, dye decay... not forgetting Murphy. Dunno. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHT+CqtTMYHG2NR9URAqxUAJ9+RY2CrS2sIyXGFbD5bS4yKwZBKQCfVFjT Eyki1GW7BBfHHzfoNZfC3UY= =Ht3G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org