Cem Kayali | 23 Mar 2009 20:50
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Re: cgd (encrypted disk) support in bootblocks (Was: summer of code - scrub feature)

Thor Lancelot Simon, 03/23/09 20:51:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:23:00PM +0200, Cem Kayali wrote:
>   
>> 'I think' auto-configured (or enabled as option by default while  
>> installing), CGD or similar encrypted partitions is not allowed by US  
>> laws... It should be done manually.
>> Can you please explain why you believe that?
>>
>> If you don't have any rational basis for believing it, could you please be
>> more careful when making similar claims in the future?
>>
>> I see these strange quote marks around 'I think' in your text.  I'm not
>> sure what they're meant to indicate, but if they are meant to indicate
>> that you are advocating that other people do things on the basis of a claim
>> whose truth value even you are highly skeptical of, perhaps you should try
>> to avoid making such claims.  If that's not what they're meant to indicate,
>> I do not know what they mean and I wish you would be more clear.
>>
>> Thor

I said 'I think' because i read somewhere that neither FreeBSD nor 
NetBSD can offer disk encryption by default. "By default" means, easy to 
setup via ie; sysinstall or install disk.

I need to get help from Google to find it again. Untill that - ignore then.

Regards,
Cem


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