[nzlug] Mounting encrypted FSs remotely

[Hadley Rich]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 09:54:34 Howard wrote:
> Hi
>
> looking for suggestions about how to set up then remotely mount one or
> more encrypted file systems.
>
> I'd like to have an encrypted file system on a server (either a physical
> partition, or loop back file) and then on a remote machine, mount this
> device.
>
> Remote machine could be on local LAN, or over the internet using
> openSSH.  Remote machine will likely be Linux, but I don't really want
> to rule out OSX and Windows machines in the future to account for other
> users.
>
> I don't want the local server to be capable of mounting the FS. (i.e.
> the keys etc won't be present)
>
> The only way I can see to do it at the moment is place a loopback file
> on a local filesystem, export this file system and then mount via
> loopback on the remote machine. Sounds a bit risky to me for internet
> use - i.e. would it be prone to corruption?
>
> Any ideas welcomed...

encFS is great. I have used it over NFS in the past and found that in that 
particular case writes were hideously slow though reads were fine. Perhaps 
you could use it with SSHFS?

hads

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