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Re: root fs/crypted



On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:54:29PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> trouble is when your dealing with corrupt/fascist/evil
> government/regimes encryption isn't going to do you much good, either
> they will throw you in prison for refusing to disclose the decryption
> key or worse they will use methods that make you very very eager to
> reveal it....

Bearing in mind that the alternative is a non-encrypted FS, which leaves
you no choice in the matter whatsoever.

At least with an encrypted FS you are "secure by default" and can then
judge what to do later based on the threat.



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