Mounting a TrueCrypt volume over FTP
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Is it possible to mount a TrueCrypt volume file over FTP?
Here's how TrueCrypt works with a local file:
- User inputs path to volume file, enters password
- TrueCrypt verifies that the password is correct (probably by decrypting the very first part of the volume file?)
- TrueCrypt reads the directory listing from the volume file and mounts the volume. However, in this step, TrueCrypt does NOT process the whole volume file.
- The user browses the directory listing and opens a file.
- TrueCrypt reads only the part of the volume file that contains the file the user wants, and then decrypts it. Once again, TrueCrypt doesn't process the whole volume file - it only reads part of it.
- The user edits part of the file and saves it.
- TrueCrypt encrypts the change and edits the volume file.
I'm pretty sure it should be possible to mount a volume over FTP, without undermining security and without having to transfer the whole volume file just to read one small part of the volume.
Here's how I imagine it:
- User inputs FTP path to volume file, enters FTP login information, enters password to volume
- TrueCrypt downloads the very first part of the volume file and verifies that the password is correct
- TrueCrypt downloads the part of the volume file that contains the directory listing - the data is sent encrypted over FTP and is decrypted locally.
- The user browses the directory listing and opens a file.
- TrueCrypt downloads only the part of the volume file that contains the file the user wants, and then decrypts it locally.
- The user edits part of the file and saves it.
- TrueCrypt encrypts the change and edits the volume file over FTP, transferring encrypted data only.
Is such a feature available?
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