[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS and encryption

Al Slater al.slater at scluk.com
Mon Jul 24 20:16:13 UTC 2017


Hi Kai,

On 24/07/17 19:44, Kai Windle wrote:
> Hello, Thank you for the fast replies. Other than the link that
> Andrew provided how do people using Illumos based distributions go
> about using encryption for their hard drives?

I don't need full disk encryption, but I use lofi to encrypt zfs volumes.

See https://blogs.oracle.com/darren/encrypting-zfs-pools-using-lofi-crypto


> On 24 July 2017 at 19:22, Alexander Lesle
> <groups at tierarzt-mueller.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hallo Kai,
>> 
>> all Illumos based distributions have no ZFS encryption at the 
>> moment.
>> 
>> On Juli, 24 2017, 19:48 <Kai Windle> wrote in [1]:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>> 
>>> I'm just making a quick inquiry as to whether ZFS has encryption
>>> built
>> into
>>> OI? I've tried googling around but nothing appears to be giving
>>> me a
>> definitive
>>> yes or no answer.
>> 
>>> If encryption is not supported via ZFS how would I go about
encrypting my
>>> entire hard drive?
>> 
>>> Sorry I'm still new to Openindiana
>> 
>>> Many thanks
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> -- Best Regards Alexander Juli, 24 2017 ........ [1]
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>> ........
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regards

Al






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