Re: OS and file system encryption
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 12:56:18PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Tigran Varosyan:
> >
> > I have read the Linux has software available that can encrypt the OS and the
> > file system to a degree that even with physical access to the HD, the data
> > cannot be extracted. I was told that this slows the systems down quite a bit
> > but that is it very functional. This sounds like interesting technology and
> > I would like to experiment with it.
>
> I didn't try it myself, but I think the most popular solution is
> dmcrypt, which allows you to encrypt everything, even your root and swap
> partition.
probably not your boot partition, though.
And if you ever forget the decryption key, you're hosed.
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