How to use encrypted folder (or filesystem)

[Robert Pendell]

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Brian Mathis wrote:
| On Jan 9, 2008 10:11 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
| <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
|> CABROL PERALES Alexandre wrote:
|>> Hi everybody,
|>>
|>> i'm using Cygwin Easy version on an usb disk.
|> This is really a question that is more appropriately directed towards the
|> maintainers of "Cygwin Easy", since that's a separate project and
anything
|> we might say here may not be appropriate for "Cygwin Easy".   That
said...
|>
|>> I would like to kow if we can use encrypted FileSystem or folder with
|>> cygwin.
|>>
|>> e.g.:
|>> mount -t vfat info.img info/ -oencrypted=aes128
|>>
|>> or another way.
|> Cygwin is not Linux (or Unix or BSD or....)  It has no file-system
drivers
|> and relies on Windows to provide file access.  Translation - you cannot
|> mount a file system with Cygwin like you show above.  Cygwin's mount is
|> not too much more than a mapping of Windows-style paths to POSIX ones.
|>
|>> Purpose:
|>> be able to use mobile cygwin with an encrypted device (partition,
|>> folder, fs image) without have to alter hoster system (no modifications
|>> on the operating system, even on c: drive).
|>>
|>> Do you have any idea?
|> In general, if you can do it with Windows, you should be able to do it
|> with Cygwin and that may translate into being able to do it with "Cygwin
|> Easy".  But to do it with Windows means you need an NTFS file system on
|> your USB disk.  If that's a problem for you, then I believe you have
|> provided the answer to yourself. ;-)
|>
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|
|
| Though not part of cygwin, truecrypt is an excellent and open source
| utility that will allow you to make and encrypted disk.  Then you can
| install whatever you like on it.
|
| http://www.truecrypt.org/
|

Truecrypt requires administrative rights to work properly.
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