Mini-HowTo: Encrypted removable devices in Breezy

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 17:49 +0300, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> For Breezy I more or less silently worked on support for encrypted
> removable devices. It's not very polished yet, so I didn't advertise
<snip>
> I'm aware of the many rough edges (like not setting up a proper device
> name for the encrypted partition) and missing features (like a missing
> GUI for formatting devices and support for hard drive encryption), but
> maybe somebody becomes interested enough to help me working at this?

What about extending gfloppy to be able to format removable media? It
already has HAL support to detect floppy drives, adding support for more
medium types shouldn't be too hard (although some of the code isn't the
nicest).

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>