Gbde

GBDE or GEOM Based Disk Encryption is a FreeBSD block device-layer disk encryption that uses 128-bit AES designed and implemented by Poul-Henning Kamp and Network Associates Inc.

A more efficient implementation of FreeBSD GEOM based Disk Encryption. GELI was later written later by Pawel Jakub Dawidek.

External Links

• FreeBSD official website
• GBDE - GEOM Based Disk Encryption, by Poul-Henning Kamp
• man page: gbde(8)
• Wikipedia: GBDE