** Reply to note from mirele@xmission.com 04/20/96 2:26pm = Due to the fact that I have been threatened by the Church of Scientology = with legal action if I do not cease and desist posting encheferated = parodies of their secret scripture (per a letter I received from Cult = attorneys via Federal Express today) I am in search of OS/2 disk = encryption programs. = DISCLAIMER: I am not a practicing attorney; I am not offering you legal advice in any form. I personally would be first and foremost concerned with all the ramifications of destroying evidence; and, testing the rules of discovery. In no way am I condoning any action which may be contrary to the rules of justice in any jurisdiction. Keep in mind what "schwarzerPford mit gehornt" said: having asked for help in a public forum, the Co$ attorneys potentially will be going for discovery violations. That said.................. The only way you are going to get automatic disk encryption with OS/2 is to write a driver which would need to distinguish between drives and/or partitions as you would probably not wish to encrypt the operating system and routine files. Secondly, if you have _all_ your files encrypted, you are begging for a contempt citation if you refuse the keys. alternatively, you could reverse engineer one of the disk compress programs (__.sys drivers) and add a stream function for encryption --again begging contempt. A better way from my perspective to preserve some of my first amendment rights would be to use an IOMega optical floppy (flopitcal). IOmega has a new 100+M byte unit for around $200 which can double as a standard 3.5 floppy and runs on SCSI cards like the Adaptec and others (they may have an EIDE version). I believe there is now a version which is bootable. The blank disks are under $20/100MB (quite reasonable). Unless you are storing an enormouse amount of data, 100MB is a lot of space (maybe not on my OS/2 system which has 4G!). Again, if you wish to run the encryption automatically, then you are required to write a new driver. Keep in mind, with a driver, you are immediately faced with the problem of the encrytion keys --particularly if they are embedded in the controller. You could have one of the keys embedded in each floptical and a utility program to enter the second key, password, etc. when the driver started up... however, from my perspective, you would be better off to just convert your encrypted files to plain text to work with your files; then re-encrypting the material when you are done. needless to say, the floptical is not very obvious... and confiscating your system does not give away the keys, etc. However, you would be wise _not_ to involve another individual, etc. Not only is that a weak point, but it puts them in the loop and provides the government with an opportunity to include conspiracy --which carries the same penalty as the "crime" and additional charges of obstructing justice. pgp is available for OS/2, obtainable from Hobbes. BTW, do NOT keep your key ring, particularly the private key king, on the hard disks; keep it on a *separate* floppy. do NOT keep it on the floptical with the encrypted material. we are all concerned with privacy: the first, second, fourth, fifth,etc. amendment rights --what little there is left of them. However, regardless of any anarchistic-libertarian viewpoints, the best advice is not to raise your head --put your helmet on the rifle butt and raise that if you must --and, if you're riding in a helicopter, sit on your helmet. revenge may be a dish best served up cold, but anonymous remailers, particularly the encrypting ones, (do not use penet) are wonderful tools for the underground publishing of unpopular political and/or religious beliefs. There is a long line of court decisions which permit anonymous publishing --despite the fact Bubba certainly intends to take away our rights, particularly in cyberspace. lastly, learn from many who have preceded you: don't stonewall the court --that "fool" in the black robe can ring your bell however he wishes with contempt citations; there is little you can do about it and the local jails are not Club Fed. -- "You're always disappointed, nothing seems to keep you high -- drive your bargains, push your papers, win your medals, fuck your strangers; don't it leave you on the empty side ?" --Joni Mitchell, 1972 cc: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>