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Anyone aware of an open source equivalent to full disk encryption products such as Pointsec (a Cisco product) where the machine won't boot unless a password is supplied?

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From this Wikipedia page, I see the following disk encryption methods that are can be used on BSD (FreeBSD or NetBSD):

Rick Copeland
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Truecrypt supports windows, linux and mac. It supports full disk encryption, although that is listed as supported only for windows. There apparently exists some patches that adds support for freebsd, although I do not know if that includes full disk encryption.

In a comment to this blog post by Bruce Schneier, the following is mentioned in addition to the ones already listed in Rick Copeland's answer:

  • svnd (OpenBSD)

and maybe

  • EncFS
  • CryptoFS
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