Re: how to external encrypted drive that supports OpenBSD and FreeBSD?

that will do! is just backup! thank you very much
what if it wasn't read-only and was active partition with writing?

and doesn't freebsd support ffs? I was reading manual and found something
about it

On Fri, March 1, 2024 5:00 pm, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 04:50:01PM -0000, beecdaddict@danwin1210.de
> wrote:
>
>> hi list do you have any recommendation? internet can't find my answer
>>
>> drive is external usb and it has to be encrypted.. something that can
>> also supports freeBSD is what I need fast solution is fat32, but how do
>> I encrypt it? freebsd doesn't have
>> softraid or bioctl
>
> What is your use case exactly?
>
>
> Do you actually need to re-write the data on the disk after it's been
> written, or is this just a one-off archiving of data to an encrypted volume
> that might need to be read back on either OS in the future?
>
> If the data is unchanging or rarely changing, you could use a FAT
> volume to store tar archives and encrypt those tar archives individually
> using a symmetric cipher using the openssl command line tool.
>