[aklug] Re: ARrrgg

I never heard of ecryptfs. Learn something new all the time. The last time I did a drive encryption with Ubuntu it was using "luksformat". I'll be encrypting my laptop drive as soon as Ubuntu Jaunty is released next week.

If "luksformat" is involved the drive is only encrypted when not in use. If someone takes my laptop my data is safe... :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane R. Spencer" <shane@bogomip.com>
To: "Christopher Howard" <choward@indicium.us>
Cc: "Alaska Linux Users Group" <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:25:28 PM GMT -09:00 Alaska
Subject: [aklug] Re: ARrrgg

Christopher Howard wrote:
>
> MSN contacts?!? MSN is a swear word on my network.
>
> I doubt the government would want any of the info on my hard drives.
> More for protection against robbers and hacker friends. Gives me a good
> feeling knowing that all my passwords, SSH keys, financial information,
> etc. would be a little harder to get to than just a simple BIOS reset
> and a boot into a knoppix CD.
>
> Actually my primary input system (virtual console) was working fine.
> Just couldn't start X11. Installing the NVIDIA drivers fixed everything.
>
Hackers work off of live systems :) once booted your drive is no longer
encrypted for most purposes. Robbers however are still gonna have a
fit.. true enough.

I figured most of the sensitive information would come from say firefox
and a bunch of applications that store password information.

If I could suggest a more session based approach toward encrypting
things it will speed up your overall system access. Unless /home is the
only encrypted partition. Check out encfs and ecryptfs. I believe
ubuntu uses ecryptfs 8.10 on during the install of the system and offers
to make a private directory for the default user inside of their home
directory.

Meh..

Shane

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