[Gllug] Encription advice appreciated.

[Simon Trimmer]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Stig Brautaset wrote:

> * Formi <rcarrera at formi.org.uk> spake thus:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Formi wrote:
> >   I recently got a small notebook, and I would to like encript my
> >   /home/formi  directory.
> >
> >   I am using MDK 8.0, with ReiserFs at the moment, not for much longer.
> >
> >   Everything is in a 1 GB partition.
>
> I take it this means you don't have a different partition for /home
>
> >   What could I use to pretend to have a bit of privacy in case somebody
> >   decides my little laptop is too cool?
> >
> >   I know that nowdays is a bit egoist to want privacy, but I am a dreamer.
>
> I think (but might well be wrong) that you will have a very hard time
> encrypting the only filesystem and still be able to boot from it. You
> might be able to solve this by booting from floppy.
>
> It all depends on the nature of the information you want to protect I
> guess. If it is textfiles, vim can do encryption. (How good it is I will
> probably never know; I have nothing to hide hence I don't use it.)
>
> Regards,
> Stig

Could get really convoluted, have a filesystem within a file and use losetup
to mount it loopback and pass it through encryption. This will work for a
partition as well as a file....

-Simon
Simon Trimmer <simon at urbanmyth.org>


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