[sllug-members]: Encrypted Home Directories

[rog]

You might take a peek at the products in sourceforge.net:  Truecrypt.
Scramdisk.  PGP for Linux.

or

http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html

or

http://openpgp.vie-privee.org/pgut-links.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Knight Walker" <kwalker at kobran.org>
To: "Salt Lake Linux Users Group Discussions" <sllug-members at sllug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [sllug-members]: Encrypted Home Directories


> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 13:15 -0700, Morgan Terry wrote:
> > Does anyone know what the best way to set up encrypted home
> > directories is? I want to do so on my laptop to give my data some
> > protection in case the machine is lost or stolen. From my research so
> > far, there seem to be several methods used (encrypted loopback,
> > dmcrypt, encfs, etc)
> >
> > Has anyone here tried doing anything like this? What method(s) did you
> > use and what were your impressions of it/them?
>
> I've experimented with this a little, but thus far nothing works quite
> as I would like.  The one I ended up using was dmcrypt, mainly because
> it's file-system independent, can handle any size, is actively being
> maintained and improved, and came with my distro.  However to get it
> setup, I had to shut off the graphical boot (So I could put in the
> password) and modify my start-up scripts to run the correct command
> before it tried to mount /home.  There are ways around having to type in
> the password all the time (like having the key on a flash drive), but
> that didn't really appeal to me (Since flash drives can be lost, stolen,
> or seized).  However from what I've been reading, with the growing
> desire for encrypted block devices or file-systems, I wouldn't be
> surprised if it doesn't get easier in the next round of distro upgrades.
>
> -KW
>
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