Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems » 15. Encryption http://opensourcesmall.biz The living site of the book by John Locke Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 More Encrypted filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES http://opensourcesmall.biz/2006/05/more-encrypted-filesystems-with-encfs-and-loop-aes/ http://opensourcesmall.biz/2006/05/more-encrypted-filesystems-with-encfs-and-loop-aes/#comments Mon, 15 May 2006 22:50:56 +0000 freelock http://opensourcesmall.biz/archives/2006/05/more-encrypted-filesystems-with-encfs-and-loop-aes/ 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.

]]> http://opensourcesmall.biz/2006/05/more-encrypted-filesystems-with-encfs-and-loop-aes/feed/ 0 Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES http://opensourcesmall.biz/2006/03/encrypt-filesystems-with-encfs-and-loop-aes/ http://opensourcesmall.biz/2006/03/encrypt-filesystems-with-encfs-and-loop-aes/#comments Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:02:09 +0000 freelock http://opensourcesmall.biz/archives/2006/03/encrypt-filesystems-with-encfs-and-loop-aes/ We’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

]]> http://opensourcesmall.biz/2006/03/encrypt-filesystems-with-encfs-and-loop-aes/feed/ 0 Kerberos, LDAP, and Single Sign-on http://opensourcesmall.biz/2005/10/kerberos-ldap-and-single-sign-on/ http://opensourcesmall.biz/2005/10/kerberos-ldap-and-single-sign-on/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:44:54 +0000 freelock http://opensourcesmall.biz/archives/2005/10/kerberos-ldap-and-single-sign-on/ Another 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

]]> http://opensourcesmall.biz/2005/10/kerberos-ldap-and-single-sign-on/feed/ 0 A secure email archive http://opensourcesmall.biz/2005/07/a-secure-email-archive/ http://opensourcesmall.biz/2005/07/a-secure-email-archive/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:03:07 +0000 freelock http://opensourcesmall.biz/archives/2005/07/a-secure-email-archive/ For 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.

NewsForge | Keeping email under lock and (public) key.

]]> http://opensourcesmall.biz/2005/07/a-secure-email-archive/feed/ 0 Encryption Chapter References http://opensourcesmall.biz/2004/05/encryption-chapter-references/ http://opensourcesmall.biz/2004/05/encryption-chapter-references/#comments Tue, 25 May 2004 05:49:20 +0000 freelock http://opensourcesmall.biz/archives/2004/05/encryption-chapter-references Books
  • 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

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

]]> http://opensourcesmall.biz/2004/05/encryption-chapter-references/feed/ 0 SourceForge.net: Project Info – PHPki Digital Certificate Authority http://opensourcesmall.biz/2004/03/sourceforgenet-project-info-phpki-digital-certificate-authority/ http://opensourcesmall.biz/2004/03/sourceforgenet-project-info-phpki-digital-certificate-authority/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:22:52 +0000 freelock http://opensourcesmall.biz/archives/2004/03/sourceforgenet-project-info-phpki-digital-certificate-authority PHPki Digital Certificate Authority is an open source project that provides a set of web pages for managing X.509 certificates for S/MIME email.

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