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Comment by anonymous on Tue Nov 29 13:54:27 2005
Let me just make sure I understand correctly. The protected data is encrypted on the Cryptobox drive, but is available in clear on the network, between the cryptobox and the user and some research paper help. Right?
see the whole discussion at ticket #83
Comment by anonymous on Sun Dec 4 06:51:50 2005
Do you have suggestions on how to secure the file transfer in a platform independent way?
Perhaps the simplest thing to do would be make (one version of) CryptoBox be a https (secure web server). (Instead of, or in addition to, being a samba file server).
Web browsers use encryption when they upload a file to a "https:// " web server, right? (using a <FORM> with <INPUT type="file" name="name_of_files">, see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.4 ). Then one (static) web page on that server asks users to upload files using such a form.
All https servers use encryption when they download files, right? So another (dynamic) web page on that server lists all of that user's files. Each one is hotlinked, so the user simply clicks on it to download / view it.
Perhaps a bit kludgy, but I think even unexperienced users could figure it out.
see the whole discussion at ticket #83, too
Comment by anonymous on Sat Dec 10 12:15:55 2005
What happens when there are multiple hard drives in the machine? Will it erase all? Does it combine them to one share with something like raid or lvm, or will they be mountable as different shares? I'd try myself, but I currently only have one free hdd to test with. btw, wonderful tool, keep up the good work, and tell us if you need more testers :-)
If there are multiple harddisks available, then it will use only the first.
We are going to implement an interface to manually partition harddisks and choose more than one of them for (seperated) encrypted containers. This feature should be available in the next release (v0.3).
If you would like to help us (e.g. by testing), then you could subscribe to the mailing list.
Comment by anonymous on Sat May 6 10:41:21 2006
Could the hdd be external usb or firewire?
yes - version 2.1 should support usb drives (firewire will work with 3.0)
Comment by andy_kaz on Mon Jun 5 19:04:18 2006
I am trying to attach the encrypted drive over a VPN connection. The encrypted drive has the IP 192.168.1.23 and I am trying to access from 192.168.0.2 through the VPN. I have worked out that access to the encrypted drive is ONLY from the 192.168.1.0 network but is there any way at all that I can get round this so that I can mount the drive locally on the 192.168.0.0 network?
The CryptoBox doesn't use any gateway by default. I'll open a ticket for a future version. Atm it is just possible to use it on the same subnet. As a workaround you could masquerade the traffic from the VPN gateway to the CryptoBox.
Comment by andy_kaz on Wed Aug 2 19:03:59 2006
I would love there to be the option to set the time/date from the configuration screen. At the moment I need to connect a monitor to the computer to adjust the time, which is a bit of a pain. Any possibility this could be added to a future version?
thanks for the hint - this will be done in v0.3 - see the new ticket:#91 [lars]
Comment by Jester on Tue Sep 26 01:00:53 2006
I know that for other people who are experienced in linux don't need to be held by the hand, but for the life of me I can't understand what cryptobox is used for. Is it a https server that delivers information over the web (there's an ip), is it to secure files on your own computer, or both. Obviously I'm missing something here but there's very little information on your page (to sell it to the inexperienced, which I suppose is your audience) or even on the web.
Sure, I can download it and burn a CD and then see what the LiveCD does, but why bother. There are too many distro's out there to be worried why there isn't ample evidence of what this distro is about.
Humbly yours, Jester.
thanks for your comment. We should surely improve the short description of the cryptobox. But reardging your problem, the following quote seems to be ok for me:
Even non-technical users are able to store their data on its encrypted harddisk.
Any suggestions for improvements are warmly welcomed, anyway ...
regards, Lars
