-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Well, 20 years may be over-doing it (smile). Making a standard iso image, with the encrypted fs as a file on the disk is what I meant to do in the first place, perhaps I could have been clearer on what I wanted to do. The livecd idea is one I hadn't considered, I'll give it a thought. Greg On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 03:48:00PM -0700, Shane wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:00:00PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > I'm wondering which encryption method to use. Ideally, I'd like to be > > able to read this back 20 years from now, and it would be nice to > > access this in windows as well, though that's not a requirement, since > > I expect gnu/linux to be around for a long while (smile). > > If you are seriously wanting to read this back in 20 years, > you may want to have the cd in standard iso format with the > crypted fs stored as a file on the cd. Also, it might be a > good idea to have sort of livecd rescue setup on the same > cd in the event dm_crypt changes in some incompatable way. > > Ideally though, I wouldn't expect anything like this to be > readable in 20 years. Just migrate the data as > technologies evolve. Also, there's no guarantee a cd-r > disc will last 20 years unless you intend to have the cds > pressed. > > > tested, according to the cryptoloop howto. I'm wondering > > then which one I should use for the long term, any > > suggestions? > > I use dm_crypt over here and it's been working well for > around seven months. Granted usage has been fairly light. > Since cryptoloop is deprecated and may well be removed from > a future kernel, I'd go with dm_crypt especially with that > 20 year readability requirement. > > Good luck, > Shane > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:42bc8da7262344592313032! > > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCvVs87s9z/XlyUyARAmwPAKCAH1xGCPLh7NmRY3lqT61OkVtb7wCfRUvz +bIYtHUr8dUmoBN07eDct0Q= =JDaZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
