Encrypt RetroPie MicroSD Card ?

[A Former User]

@AlexMurphy Nothing.

[AlexMurphy]

@itsnitro Ah, @itsnitro , san. Wax on, wax off.

[A Former User]

But I thought wax was used in honeycombs.
and candles.
Not people.

[TMNTturtlguy]

@itsnitro Wax on, wax off

[AlexMurphy]

@itsnitro Ever seen Guardians of the Galaxy?

[A Former User]

@AlexMurphy Nope, never.
@TMNTturtlguy That is funny. Side note: I used to be a big TMNT fan, and would always watch the TV Shows on YouTube.

[AlexMurphy]

@itsnitro Okay. Just exactly what sort of geek are you then? Huh?

[pjft]

Back on topic... :)

I don't see why it couldn't be done, though you probably would need to encrypt it before installing anything on the partition.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=125051

I'd imagine performance could suffer though.

As an alternative, if this is really a problem, maybe it's more manageable to move your ROMs to an USB disk and encrypt that. You'd then need to figure out how to mount the encrypted disk in Raspbian.

Edit: I actually never watched Guardians of the Galaxy either. Heard good things about it though.

[AlexMurphy]

@itsnitro Sorry, I realise you aren't really old enough to be watching it...

[AlexMurphy]

@pjft Load times would but I really don't see the benefit. To hide ROMs from people? Just get your ISP to cough it up!

[A Former User]

Who knows, there are ways to get into someone's home network. I think people just want to be EXTRA safe.

[AlexMurphy]

@itsnitro Well, any time I'm online I always wear a crash helmet and a jock-strap. Just in case.

[matchaman]

I understand the situation here. Many of my friends ask to borrow my RP3 for the weekend or so.

My setup has been done manually, I added tons of Japanese game collections, painstakingly selected the correct artwork, videos, etc so I wouldn't like anyone to copy and sell my "work".

Since physical access to the microSD card can easily gain them root access or plain image copy, after backing up my (final-ish) setup and ensuring that my root and user password are unique, I used epoxy.

Yup, that two part glue that will never, ever come out without complete destruction of the card or the board itself.

Use epoxy carefully in order to avoid ruining your hardware (avoid connectors) and realise that you're shortening the particular Pi's life to a microSD's read/write cycles. It will definitely die before the rest of the hardware.

But at this price it's virtually expendable anyway, isn't it? :)