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Offline malikawan

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2014, 07:11:25 AM »
How to load fuse module any idea please?

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #16 on: June 10, 2014, 09:23:41 AM »
Hi malikawan
bcrypt is not present in tinycore 4.7.7. I am using tinycore 4.7.7
Sure it is. It's part of base and located in  /usr/bin/.

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2014, 10:23:06 AM »
in my opinion bcrypt has some security issues

Could you elaborate please?

one aspect of many others:
the debian packagers did not include the package in the actual stable branch yet, so i had to look for alternatives :(

1. How would that be related to security issues?
2. How would that be of any relevance to Core, where bcrypt is included in base since many years and a specific boot code "protect" is provided with a mechanism to encrypt backup and decrypt at boot time out of the box?
3. With "many others" we are just back to "could you elaborate?" again...   ???
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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #18 on: June 11, 2014, 01:33:34 AM »
How to load fuse module any idea please?

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #19 on: June 11, 2014, 02:50:08 AM »
encfs will need to be recompiled against the tc-5.x boost extension in order to work in tc-5.x

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #20 on: June 11, 2014, 03:39:17 AM »
Thanx for reply Juanito

I am using tinycore 4.7.7 and encfs installed but the problem is fuse module how i load it ?

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #21 on: June 11, 2014, 07:57:36 AM »
In fact the fuse module is compiled into the kernel so there is no need to load it.

Offline malikawan

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2014, 06:31:07 AM »
But by default fuse module not loaded now what to do to load it

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2014, 08:37:03 AM »
When a module is compiled into the kernel you don't need to load it - it is there for use if required.

Offline malikawan

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #24 on: June 13, 2014, 12:46:24 AM »
How to solve these problems please any idea

fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
fuse failed.  Common problems:
 - fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse)
 - invalid options -- see usage message

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2014, 11:59:57 PM »
How to solve these problems please any idea while using encfs extention

fuse: mountpoint is not empty
fuse: if you are sure this is safe, use the 'nonempty' mount option
fuse failed.  Common problems:
 - fuse kernel module not installed (modprobe fuse)
 - invalid options -- see usage message

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #26 on: August 13, 2014, 12:33:28 AM »
We can't tell you what is wrong when you don't show us the command you are running that produces that error.

Offline malikawan

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2014, 07:02:02 AM »
After giving that command

tc@box:~$ encfs ~/.atserial /home/tc/AT-SERIAL

Offline malikawan

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #28 on: March 20, 2015, 02:06:52 AM »
An easy approach would be to use the natively supported boot code "protect", in which case backup is encrypted and gets decrypted at boot.........................

i use boot code "protect" but it require password every time when boot

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Re: How to create an encrypted folder for my private files?
« Reply #29 on: March 20, 2015, 02:29:11 AM »
hi malikawan,

i also use boot code "protect" and the required password substitutes my user password at every boot.
confidential files and data are stored in an encrypted file-container that is secured by an additional password and this file-container is only opened by request, when these encrypted files are really needed :-)

i use cryptsetup with a file-container that is mounted by a loop-device:

$DB is my mount-point
$DATABOX is my file-container

     sudo mkdir -p /mnt/$DB
     sudo mknod -m 660 /dev/loop256 b 7 256 > /dev/null 2>&1
     sudo losetup /dev/loop256 $DATABOX     > /dev/null 2>&1
     sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop256 $DB
     sudo mount -t ext3 -o rw,defaults /dev/mapper/$DB /mnt/$DB

this solution can be used on different linux-platforms without any changes...
« Last Edit: March 20, 2015, 02:33:03 AM by netnomad »