I know how to mount an ext3 filesystem in OS X with MacFUSE and fuse-ext2. But how can I mount an encrypted ext3 volume?
I have Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" running.
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4Which encryption? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 12 '10 at 14:25
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@Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: AES 128 with a SHA256 hashing. – viam0Zah Apr 13 '10 at 07:22
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3The algorithm doesn't matter. The mechanism does. TrueCrypt? LUKS? Something else? – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 13 '10 at 13:41
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1@Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: LUKS. – viam0Zah Apr 14 '10 at 15:03
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1See also: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92312/can-i-decrypt-a-dm-crypt-filesystem-on-os-x/132360 – kenorb May 30 '14 at 11:22
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http://askubuntu.com/questions/604554/encrypted-filesystem-shared-with-mac-os-x – Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com Jul 01 '16 at 15:24
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Looks like if you want portability then a better option is veracrypt/truecrypt/zulucrypt which are compatible with each other and have clients for linux, mac, windows, ios, android, etc. – ccpizza Dec 03 '17 at 00:07
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One really slow and "stupid" way to do this is to install a tiny linux distro in a virtual machine, let that work as a interface against the disk by sharing a folder with the host(OS X). It is completely overkill, but it will work.
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3So it seems the trivial answer is that I cannot mount an encrypted volume in OS X but your solution is a good workaround for my problem, though. Thanks. – viam0Zah Apr 17 '10 at 20:09
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1It's really a compromise. LUKS is secure because it runs in the kernel space. But when doing encryption in a virtual machine, clear passphrase would be store in the user space of host machine. Some virtual machine software even maps vm memory into non-privileged user's process memory or files when suspending. – Sherwood Wang Sep 27 '15 at 06:34
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Unfortunately there is currently no way to mount unencrypted LVM volumes in OS X, much less LUKS-encrypted volumes.
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11This was posted in April 2010. Have any new solutions appeared in the last 4 years? – SabreWolfy Feb 05 '14 at 09:04
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You could try OSXCrypt which is "test-software" or something like that...
It might wreck your system since it's still underdevelopment. Not sure if you want that. I believe that it's supposed to let you access LUKS encrypted volumes under OSX. According to their website everything is a no-guarantee basis so if you have important or valuable files on the disk it's better off not trying it. Link here.
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1It supports TrueCrypt. They want to let the community handle LUKS support. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Apr 16 '10 at 05:27
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