[Sussex] Encryption for laptop use

Dominic Humphries linux at oneandoneis2.org
Fri May 26 16:42:25 UTC 2006


Afternoon all,

I finally got myself a laptop & I'm planning on putting Debian on it.

For all the obvious reasons, I want to make sure that some things  
aren't viewable if my laptop gets lost/stolen - particularly Firefox's  
files, since they'd give away far too many of my passwords.

Given the number of laptops in evidence last night, I suspect that I'm  
not the first to consider the issue, so I figured I'd ask what people  
would recommend. Using PAM & DM-crypt to mount an encrypted home  
partition seems to be the most popular choice of howto guides,  
according to google..

Any comments welcome!

TIA

Dominic




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