Isn't it time for the encrypted file system???
Karel Zak
kzak at redhat.com
Fri Mar 24 16:50:41 UTC 2006
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:31:19AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Laptops have becoming the standard machine for people, replacing the
> desktop. We need to consider defaulting FC6 with encrypted filesystem
> or at least homedirs out of the box. This should be a key feature of FC6.
I don't think that encrypted filesystem is a good way. I think better
idea is support for encrypted devices (partitions). It's solution
independent on filesystem and it's useful for swaps too. For more
details see cryptsetup-luks and dm-crypt.
I have done work on util-linux patch that adds full cryptsetup-luks
support to mount, umount, swapon and swapoff. See:
http://people.redhat.com/kzak/util-linux-cryptsetup/
I'd like to see it in the util-linux upstream, but upstream seems
pretty inactive... Maybe we can try it as FC specific solution and
don't wait for any external (upstream) solution.
Karel
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