[Gllug] Encription advice appreciated.

[Formi]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Formi wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Damerell wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, 19 Sep 2001, Formi wrote:
> > > Being a laptop, the difficulty you mention is a bless. I mean having
> > > to mount by hand and supplying the password.
> > > I don't need a normal backup procedure, because everything that
> > > goes to the thinkpad is duplicated on the fly in my desktop via
> > > nfs.
> >
> > And presumably you plan to similarly encrypt the filesystem on the
> > desktop?
> >
> > You still have the problem that the spooks could pick through your
> > swapfile. I don't know how sophisticated you expect the attackers to be.
> >
> > > I wouldn't be a bad idea if all distros provided the option to
> > > do this kind of thing with different levels of security/performance.
> >
> > Difficult for US-based distros owing to crypto export regulations.
> >
> >
>
>  I am not speaking of really strong security here, just something a bit
> elaborated in case somebody nicks my laptop. Nothing related to online
> crime. Firewalls do exist for that and I try to keep mine nice and clean.
>
>  No, I don't plan it for the desktop, maybe in the future,
>  US citizens can do whatever they want it their * country, and
>  therefore also suffer the consequences but they
>  shouldn't be bullying others.
>
>  The last thing a bully needs is somebody backing it up without thinking
>  properly about it.
>
>                                   Formi.
>

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