Re: What remains to be done.
Another need is for file/disk-encryption utilities. I'm not familiar with what's out there for Macs, but for PCs there's SFS and ASPICRYP for SCSI drives (with no source!) and SFS, SecureDrive and SecureDevice for HD (or FD). The latter won't work on Win95. AFAIK, SFS and SecureDrive aren't 100% friendly with Win95 either, though they'll work. There's a need for something that will work under Win95, WinNT, and/or OS/2 for encrypting partitions. Aside from a few commercial or shareware apps which use some variant of DES, there's little out there. (One problem is that DD kits for Win95/NT and OS/2 cost $$$.) Rob. --- No-frills sig. Befriend my mail filter by sending a message with the subject "send help" Key-ID: 5D3F2E99 1996/04/22 wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (root@magneto) AB1F4831 1993/05/10 Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com> Send a message with the subject "send pgp-key" for a copy of my key.
On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Deranged Mutant wrote:
There's a need for something that will work under Win95, WinNT, and/or OS/2 for encrypting partitions. Aside from a few commercial or shareware apps which use some variant of DES, there's little out there. (One problem is that DD kits for Win95/NT and OS/2 cost $$$.)
Yeah, I'm kinda lusting after something that would work under NT as well as under 95. Too bad NT won't allow the use of BIOS INT 13 calls so that one may load the SecureDrive TSR. :( I don't have OS/2, but if I did you could easily add that to the list. I'm constantly switching between NT and 95 and have them installed on the same drive. Would be cool to have some low level driver to encryption from the Master Boot Record for example to get around unfriendly OS's- but then NT won't respect the BIOS calls, 95 in 32 bit mode won't, Linux sure as hell wont, etc.... that was the whole idea of having a BIOS in the first place, but woe is us. ========================================================================== + ^ + | Ray Arachelian |FL| KAOS KERAUNOS KYBERNETOS |==/|\== \|/ |sunder@dorsai.org|UL|__Nothing_is_true,_all_is_permitted!_|=/\|/\= <--+-->| --------------- |CG|What part of 'Congress shall make no |=\/|\/= /|\ | Just Say "No" to|KA|law abridging the freedom of speech' |==\|/== + v + | Janet Reno & GAK|AK| do you not understand? |======= ===================http://www.dorsai.org/~sunder/========================= Key Escrow Laws are the mating calls of those who'd abuse your privacy!
On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Ray Arachelian wrote:
I'm constantly switching between NT and 95 and have them installed on the same drive. Would be cool to have some low level driver to encryption from the Master Boot Record for example to get around unfriendly OS's- but then NT won't respect the BIOS calls, 95 in 32 bit mode won't, Linux sure as hell wont, etc....
Linux, however, does have the cfs (crypted filesystem), which will let you do the same thing. Supposedly lets you plug in your own encryption method and all that... Also allows different users to encrypt with different passwords, and such (or just the root user encrypt the whole partition). Find the web page for more info. \\\| Elliot Lee |\\\ || "Claim to fame": \\\| Red Hat Software |\\\ || Live in only town in the \\\| Webmaster www.redhat.com, |\\\ || USA with an unlisted ZIP \\\| Programmer, etc. |\\\ || code.
On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Elliot Lee wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Ray Arachelian wrote:
I'm constantly switching between NT and 95 and have them installed on the same drive. Would be cool to have some low level driver to encryption from the Master Boot Record for example to get around unfriendly OS's- but then NT won't respect the BIOS calls, 95 in 32 bit mode won't, Linux sure as hell wont, etc....
Linux, however, does have the cfs (crypted filesystem), which will let you do the same thing. Supposedly lets you plug in your own encryption method and all that... Also allows different users to encrypt with different passwords, and such (or just the root user encrypt the whole partition). Find the web page for more info.
Not quite what I'm looking for I'm afraid. What I want is a big partition that's encrypted, but accessible from Windows NT, 95, and Linux. In other words, I need an encrypted drive device driver for all of the above operating systems that's compatible across them. So when I'm running NT, I can use the drive, when I'm running 95 I can use the drive, when I'm running Linux I can use the drive. Now linux has a nice UMS which lets me access DOS drives. If that were merged with - say SecureDrive, and if SecureDrive were rewritten as a 32 bit VxD minidriver for 95, and if there were a version of the same for NT, >THAT< would be cool. :) ========================================================================== + ^ + | Ray Arachelian |FL| KAOS KERAUNOS KYBERNETOS |==/|\== \|/ |sunder@dorsai.org|UL|__Nothing_is_true,_all_is_permitted!_|=/\|/\= <--+-->| --------------- |CG|What part of 'Congress shall make no |=\/|\/= /|\ | Just Say "No" to|KA|law abridging the freedom of speech' |==\|/== + v + | Janet Reno & GAK|AK| do you not understand? |======= ===================http://www.dorsai.org/~sunder/========================= Key Escrow Laws are the mating calls of those who'd abuse your privacy!
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