From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1205A1381FA for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD8EDE0A03; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:20:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 972DDE08AF for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B561124C1D for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 10:20:11 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 10:20:07 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? Message-ID: <20140602102007.088c6f45@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <538C3B9F.10808@hadt.biz> References: <538B1D0A.9070405@libertytrek.org> <538B66A1.6070106@googlemail.com> <538C344E.6050809@gmail.com> <538C3B9F.10808@hadt.biz> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.0-33-ge7dc27 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/XVpCgp2G2IPjT9IRkHjdhgf"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 1e3a3cc7-78f4-4815-9535-0b6b46e8af8d X-Archives-Hash: 45f3e0ff026be0123713a48847d197e0 --Sig_/XVpCgp2G2IPjT9IRkHjdhgf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? =20 > 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? --=20 Neil Bothwick Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups. --Sig_/XVpCgp2G2IPjT9IRkHjdhgf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlOMQcsACgkQum4al0N1GQO/mgCeIhZlcLLApP6MBT9TfyOqYbWU q7oAoISNhKEYYCelZrCeF91npbFF01zK =9wjH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/XVpCgp2G2IPjT9IRkHjdhgf--