[Gllug] Encription advice appreciated.

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 19 Sep 2001, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>>Well, I encrypt my home directory at home, after a friend of mine was
>>(wrongly) accused of a crime and had his machines seized.
>Encryption wouldn't help you in that situation anyway. You either
>hand over your key to the appropriate government agency or spend two
>years in jail (thanks to the wonderful RIP bill).

I'd rather have the choice, though; if my home directory is encrypted,
I can talk to the EFF and see if I want to be a test case.

>>Unless you run without swap, the spooks can probably recover some
>>data from your swap partition.
>There are patches to support encrypted swap available.

Come to think of it, there's little to prevent one just using a
partition encrypted through the loopback interface as one would for a
filesystem.

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

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