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 Post subject: File System Encryption
PostPosted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:17 am 
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as a thought, for security purposes it would be a neat idea if a password could be used each time the system is booted up,
this could prevent someone walking off with the box and being able to use the data within.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:09 pm 
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You are kidding - right?

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:45 pm 
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well actually i diden't think i was.

as i have only just finished evaluating NASlite, and found it is more than adiquate for most aplications.
Unlike another NAS package available (Darma) which failed to meet expectations.
i was simply tring to think of ways of protecting the data from theft in a buisness application.


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It is most definitely possible to do what you suggest and encrypt the NASLite file system. It will probably work well, but security, like everything else comes with added responsibility and some system overhead. Here are some things to consider:

    1. If you forget or loose the filesystem password, you just lost your data.
    2. If something goes wrong and the filesystem brakes, you just lost your data.
    3. The server OS will have to encrypt and decrypt on the fly, so less capable machines will probably not offer the necessary performance.
    4. Rebooting the server will require that you log-in to “unlock” the filesystems, making recovery due to unexpected reboots (power failure, etc) impossible.


It also seems out of context given the light-weight, open nature of the NASLite products. Perhaps, a different product may target that functionality, with some form of user management that will be necessary.

Just my thoughts


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:30 am 
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I agree with Tony's assesment. His points hit home very well. I had the very same misfortune with a win2k server. We thought we would try out the MS encryption on a data drive . Unfortunately we did not think to back up the needed MS certificates and when the OS drive died we thought with all the needed passwords we could reinstall win2k and resetup the programs.
It was a complicated process to break the encryption and get back the data.
Fortunately we had a MS backup file to help, but it too was encrypted. Anyway, Unless your mp3 or avi collection is so valuable that you need encryption, stay with tried and true NASlite.

chang


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If your data is that valuable, you'll probably want someting fare more robust than an old pentium II running NASLite to handle them. And you'll probably want to keep it somewhere safe.


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