From: Ryan Tandy <tarpman@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:36:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44DE741C.2000404@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060813002233.GA9653@garbanzo>
John J. Foster wrote:
> Do you encrypt your home directory?
>
Not on my desktop. On my laptop, however, everything except /boot is
encrypted (/, /home, swap).
> What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why?
>
sys-apps/util-linux with USE=crypt, and app-crypt/loop-aes.
> Which ciphers do you prefer? Why?
>
AES256, because that's what the HOWTO used. :P
> Is it well supported?
>
It has a README... :P
Actually, I've never had a problem with it. :) It's ~arch only, though,
and it's been that way for as long as I've used it.
> What apps and/or files don't play well with encrytion?
None that I've found.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-13 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-13 0:22 [gentoo-user] Guidance on encrypting my /home John J. Foster
2006-08-13 0:36 ` Ryan Tandy [this message]
2006-08-13 1:10 ` Jerry McBride
2006-08-13 1:32 ` Richard Fish
2006-08-13 9:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-13 17:42 ` Ryan Sims
2006-08-13 18:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-13 18:39 ` Richard Fish
2006-08-13 22:09 ` John J. Foster
2006-08-14 6:59 ` Richard Fish
2006-08-14 7:17 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-08-15 0:03 ` John J. Foster
2006-08-19 18:06 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2006-08-19 20:29 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2006-08-19 20:54 ` Richard Fish
2006-08-19 21:17 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2006-08-14 6:18 ` Eray Aslan
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