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 A7C501381FA for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:48:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A129BE092F; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:48:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f54.google.com (mail-yh0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BFA9E088B for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 09:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f54.google.com with SMTP id i57so3587671yha.13 for ; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:48:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xaFHF3zwGKmqFPO1dk4GRKDNqMrk+IHx1OPb5F0yqJc=; b=dbARklH4Qm8Kzz8qNIrKRtxWvt6yp8IqlE6GkyKhpSBsDW5Dcqqwe3GvaEYBeiBh0V ZmvvUuDAGNxYjlrHDrHjmBH1/tUoUCY63iNQ6lei3inwprGg40HctClBIp/nWCz9rPsD lJ1RgzTAWwDP8+pwNNpRY0DL59OOMr0BL/7a3Ln2CdRslB+GZ3ER9aDNDlTPpsdi4IVJ buYDsh0uIPGjFUaIoxlo3hifWsMHX5mRxEj8Vl+k+89Z9l0a72LsnDC6n5FIBE5Uje/j E3r5xkfOKDRSU0ntDAnTPtBtWTFGhr/10KMRhkSa3VzP4h569koljdFDY8BxyjCtWMqq gh9g== X-Received: by 10.236.194.169 with SMTP id m29mr2649893yhn.121.1401702496697; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-147-33.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.147.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id s6sm19655467yhk.22.2014.06.02.02.48.15 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 02 Jun 2014 02:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <538C485F.5070901@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 04:48:15 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? References: <538B1D0A.9070405@libertytrek.org> <538B66A1.6070106@googlemail.com> <538C344E.6050809@gmail.com> <538C42D3.6050205@googlemail.com> <20140602103422.39856e78@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140602103422.39856e78@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fa34e475-8630-4aa1-906c-77f8d4327b05 X-Archives-Hash: d690aa4899cb5e2536d9973b26114506 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 11:24:35 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days. >> why? if you are hacked, they just read what you are reading. Encryption >> does not help you there at all. > It helps if your computer is stolen. This is more, but not only, relevant > to laptops. > > I admit, I have never used encryption like this before. I am assuming that if I logout of my GUI, then it is encrypted at that point? Once I log back in, it decrypts it again? Am I at least close? I do have a desktop system. No lappy, yet anyway. Maybe one of these days. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!