[ale] I have fallen in love with Truecrypt

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:02 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> what if you take it to some brain-dead Windows box??

I don't give a fsck about some brain-dead Windows box.  :)  I don't use
filesystems that Windows can read, anyway, on my removable media.  I use
either ext2 or squashfs on optical media, and usually ext2 on flash
media.  When btrfs becomes stable, I plan on using that for both flash
and optical media, as it supports some functionality that I'd really
love to be able to take advantage of.

Also, once its stable, I'd like to see about creating a script that will
be able to create bootable btrfs filesystems on optical media.  Since
btrfs is so flexible, it is absolutely possible in theory.  I just do
not yet know the details of how to do that.  But it would make it
really, really easy to create live CDs that store their persistent data
on another drive, using btrfs for the whole kit and caboodle, and it
would greatly simplify building such things, possibly even making it
feasible to run a real system from a single BD-R and use the hard disk
drives, flash drives, or whatever purely for data storage.

That said, it's possible in theory to use LUKS on Windows, with the
constraint that you have to use a filesystem that Windows knows how to
read inside the encrypted container.  See the Wikipedia article on a
piece of software called FreeOTFE, at [0].  Disclaimer:  I have never
used FreeOTFE, and I don't know if it works or not.  Nor do I really
care.  ;-)

	--- Mike

[0]: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/FreeOTFE
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