[NTLUG:Discuss] Latest on partition encryption

[Craig Gill]

I'm leaning more toward whole disk encryption, something exportable to China.
Something so that if the bad guy gets the box the hard drive is
basically a brick.

What do you use in your case?

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
> Craig Gill wrote:
>> I'm just starting to delve into partition encryption solutions, what
>> are some recommendations/pro's/con's from some experienced users?
>> For example, encrypting home dir or individual partitions/swap etc.
>
> I do the whole filesystem (could be a partition or LV ... whatever).
>
> You get prompted as the machine boots up (or filesystem gets mounted)
> for the passphrase.
>
> If done "right" this way, it's possible the machine is usable even
> if the user booting the machine chooses NOT to give a valid passphrase.
>
> But everyone's security policy is different...
>
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