From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:02:35 +0800
To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@dorsai.dorsai.org>
Subject: Re: What remains to be done.
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On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Ray Arachelian wrote:

> I'm constantly switching between NT and 95 and have them installed on the 
> same drive.  Would be cool to have some low level driver to encryption 
> from the Master Boot Record for example to get around unfriendly OS's- but 
> then NT won't respect the BIOS calls, 95 in 32 bit mode won't, Linux sure 
> as hell wont, etc....

Linux, however, does have the cfs (crypted filesystem), which will let you
do the same thing. Supposedly lets you plug in your own encryption method
and all that... Also allows different users to encrypt with different
passwords, and such (or just the root user encrypt the whole partition).
Find the web page for more info.

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