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-AbramsApr 12, 2010 at 14:25
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@Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: AES 128 with a SHA256 hashing.– viam0ZahApr 13, 2010 at 7:22
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3The algorithm doesn't matter. The mechanism does. TrueCrypt? LUKS? Something else?– Ignacio Vazquez-AbramsApr 13, 2010 at 13:41
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1@Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: LUKS.– viam0ZahApr 14, 2010 at 15:03
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1See also: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/92312/…– kenorbMay 30, 2014 at 11:22
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Unfortunately there is currently no way to mount unencrypted LVM volumes in OS X, much less LUKS-encrypted volumes.
answered Apr 14, 2010 at 15:28
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12This was posted in April 2010. Have any new solutions appeared in the last 4 years? Feb 5, 2014 at 9:04
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Hello from 2023! There is a solution now: superuser.com/a/1807058/1157555– Alex S.Sep 4, 2023 at 12:41
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.– viam0ZahApr 17, 2010 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. Sep 27, 2015 at 6:34
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You can use Linsk. It is a utility that wraps around a lightweight Alpine Linux VM, allowing you to mount any Linux file system (including LUKS) that is then exposed to the host machine through a network file share.
Disclosure: I'm the author.
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. Apr 16, 2010 at 5:27
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