From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 10:20:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140602102007.088c6f45@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538C3B9F.10808@hadt.biz>
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On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:53:51 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days. Given
> > the things that have come out in recent months, back doors and such,
> > what is a good program/software/tool to use that is well . . .
> > secure? Is there such a thing now?
> Depends on your needs, for encrypting complete devices/partitions try
> the kernels dm-crypt/luks module. If you just want to encrypt a
> directory try encfs, and for file encryption there's openssl and gpg
Definitely dm-crypt/LUKS for partitions/devices, but why use encfs which
needs FUSE, when ecryptfs does the same thing in kernel space?
--
Neil Bothwick
Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-01 12:31 [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? Tanstaafl
2014-06-01 17:45 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02 8:22 ` Dale
2014-06-02 8:53 ` Michael Hampicke
2014-06-02 9:20 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2014-06-02 10:24 ` Michael Hampicke
2014-06-02 11:34 ` Mark David Dumlao
2014-06-02 12:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02 9:24 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02 9:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02 9:48 ` Dale
2014-06-02 10:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-06-02 10:27 ` Dale
2014-06-02 10:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02 11:04 ` Dale
2014-06-02 11:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02 11:33 ` Dale
2014-06-02 13:23 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 11:28 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-02 12:06 ` Dale
2014-06-02 12:28 ` Michael Hampicke
2014-06-02 12:30 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 13:27 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-02 13:40 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 12:23 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 12:36 ` godzil
2014-06-02 12:58 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 13:29 ` godzil
2014-06-02 14:52 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 13:23 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 15:29 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-03 18:53 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-03 21:05 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-03 19:53 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-03 21:27 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 18:14 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02 17:14 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02 19:26 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 13:22 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 16:54 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02 10:43 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-02 10:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-04 19:59 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-06-04 23:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-05 16:52 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-06-05 16:57 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-02 10:22 ` Tanstaafl
2014-06-02 10:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-03 7:17 ` Marc Stürmer
2014-06-03 10:00 ` Tanstaafl
2014-06-03 12:02 ` Mick
2014-06-03 19:59 ` Marc Stürmer
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