We’ve written about drakloop and mountloop, a couple of Mandriva programs that simplify the task of creating an encrypted container for your sensitive files. Here’s a new article outlining how to do it in Ubuntu: Linux.com | Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES.
Archive for the ‘15. Encryption’ Category
More Encrypted filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES
Monday, May 15th, 2006Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES
Monday, March 20th, 2006We’ve written about encryption in our newsletters on Freelock.com, but it looks like there are some new options available. EncFS is a Linux encryption system that encrypts individual files on the fly, rather than mounting a virtual “encrypted disk.” Loop-AES looks like a new interface for Mandrake’s Drakloop, which we’ve been using and recommending for years. Linux.com | Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES
Kerberos, LDAP, and Single Sign-on
Monday, October 31st, 2005Another very technical article. This one describes how to set up an infrastructure for securely providing single sign-ons to multiple systems in a LAN. Paranoid Penguin – Single Sign-on and the Corporate Directory, Part I | Linux Journal
A secure email archive
Tuesday, July 5th, 2005For those who need to keep an archive of every sent or received in an organization, here’s a brief story about how to create one securely and automatically.
Encryption Chapter References
Monday, May 24th, 2004Books
- The Key To Rebecca, by Ken Follet, William Morrow, 1985.
- Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Governement—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, by Steven Levy, Penguin Group, 2001.
- Network Security with OpenSSL, by John Viega, Matt Messier, and Pravir Chandra O’Reilly, June 15, 2002
Articles
- "Securing Certificate Revocation List Infrastructures," by Eddie Turkaly
Software
- OpenSSL, open source encryption libraries
- GPG, open source encryption for files and email
- kgpg, open source graphical interface for GPG in KDE
- Windows Privacy Tools, open source GPG interface for Windows
Web Sites
SourceForge.net: Project Info – PHPki Digital Certificate Authority
Saturday, March 13th, 2004PHPki Digital Certificate Authority is an open source project that provides a set of web pages for managing X.509 certificates for S/MIME email.