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Re: To make unreadable a functional system.



On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:34:16PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> Good day.
> 
> Can You please help me to direct to some documentation or project in
> Debian or explain how to make the following:
> 
> after a system has been installed and configured - to make it encrypted
> so that it will make impossible (or almost so) to read its files,
> configuration, etc (even though the HDD be removed from the host and
> connected to another running OS) - yet that it will run from turning on power on the host itself (boot).
> 
> - In short - possible to use, impossible to read w/o a password.
> 
> Thank You for Your time.

You need to look for a type of product called "Whole Disk Encryption".
PGPDisk is one such product. Generally speaking, they encrypt your
entire harddisk and install their own, unencrypted, boot loader. You
enter a password at the boot loader, and that decrypts your hard disk on
the fly. The OS - in theory - doesn't see a difference, because all
accesses to the disk are filtered through the encryption/decryption.

The problem with most of these WDE programs is that they rely on a
Windows program to do the initial encryption. You might try something
like TrueCrypt, though; I believe that it works with linux.

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