March 28, 2006

Linux Encryption Tools, BestCrypt

Encryption for Linux

A few years ago I tried out BestCrypt's Encryption for Linux. My setup was that I had
a single partition which I used for encrypted data. It worked really well, and the partition was password protected at boot time. In other words the partition was mounted
only if I provided the valid password. If no password was provided, the mount of that partition would be dropped, but the rest of the system would boot up as usual.
As far as I can remember, I used the Blowfish in Cipher Block Chaining Mode.

Current release for Linux is 1.6-3 and you can even download the BestCrypt Development
Kit, if you feel for hacking some crypto software and algorithms.

BestCrypt can be found at http://www.jetico.com/
BestCrypt is available for Linux, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/2003 Server/XP/XP x64 as version 7.20.2