Re: Disc encryptian.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:41:22AM CET, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said:
> On 02/21/2011 01:00 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> >On 21 February 2011 15:32, Erwan David<erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> >
> >>On 21/02/11 05:05, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>On 02/20/2011 09:46 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> >>>>Greetings all,
> >>>>
> >>>>looking at the collective knowledge factor, what's the best disc
> >>>>encryption package?
> >>>
> >>>Do you want to encrypt *everything* of just a few folders?
> >>
> >
> >Everything, including swap.
> >
>
> Your original email was a bit vague. What exactly are you trying to
> prevent "them" from doing?
Note that it is no use to encrypt disc without encrypting swap since
the decryption key might be written in swap. Debian installer mandates
an encrypted swap when you use encrypted partitions.
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