On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 08:38:09PM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
On 11/26/05, Fredrik <fredrick@thegate.nu> wrote:
Well, to hack a PC with physical access is easy. That is why i'm
krypted my hd with blowfish-256
It will take thousands of years to hack :-)
And would render data recovery in case of HD failure impossible.
I really don't think that for a regular home user block level hd
encryption is a good idea.
That is unless you maintain a strict backup policy and use a raid1 / 5
/ 10 data duplication storage OR you really do have something to hide
;)
Then you have to encrypt the backups... Meanwhile, disk level
encryption provides no extra security while the machine is up, which is
probably most of the time.