[Gllug] Encription advice appreciated.

[David Damerell]

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.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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