Finally we have a truly portable, open source, encrypted filesystem. I’ve tested a fair share of encrypted filesystem solutions. The most promising probably being encfs since it could be used with Fuse, but that only works on OS X and Linux at best.

TrueCrypt, probably the best solution available, was only working on Linux and Windows… up to now.
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Here is a list of keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys available during the boot sequence of OS X on Intel based macs although some shortcuts also work on PPC.
Shamelessly ripped off apple’s documentation article:
Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs.

But that’s impossible!!

HTTPS is just HTTP encapsulated inside an SSL tunnel. Apache’s virtual hosts are a clever “hack” whereby the Host header in the HTTP packet is verified. This alllows a single apache instance on a single IP/Port combination to serve a (not so) infinite number of differentes sites (aka vhosts).

Problem: The SSL tunnel is created before the first HTTP packet gets sent. Apache needs an SSL certificate but doesn’t have a Host header to match, hence cannot choose a virtual host.

Solution

This trick essentially does the matching of the Host header after the SSL connection has been established. How? Via some mod_rewrite magic!

Caveats

Although I said so, it’s not really that magical. There are a few things this trick does not solve.

• The SSL certificate used will be common to all SSL vhosts.
• Certain Apache directives may be common to all SSL vhosts (example: SuExecUserGroup). Basically anything you can’t override in a .htaccess file will be shared amongst vhosts.

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