Encrypted home directory

[David Nielsen]

2008/12/22 Nikolay Vladimirov <nikolay at vladimiroff.com>

> 2008/12/22 Muayyad AlSadi <alsadi at gmail.com>:
> > I guess we should have an optional special directory inside each user's
> home
> > let's say it's named private
> >
> > a trivial pygtk tool can call fuse to mount a file there into the same
> directory
> >
> > what do you think ?
> >
> > I guess I have 1000000s config files on my home, apps will start very
> > slow if they are encrypted (think firefox for example)
> >
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> It's good to have an option to do both encrypted home and dedicated
> encrypted dir in home.
> Sice it's normal to have programs that save your passwords in
> plaintext in their configs. And yes,
> most of them do that because they also send the passwords in plaintext
> over the net,
> and if someone watches your traffic it will be trivial to find them.
> Also it's good to encrypt the cache of some programs since it's common
> that you don't want
> your browser history, cache, etc. to be visible.


Wouldn't saving passwords in plaintext (presumably also history and cache)
be a bug?

>
> However I find it simpler and safer to use hardware disk
> encryption(from the BIOS config) and a bunch of other thinkpad
> security stuff.
> I'm not really sure if this kind of stuff is widely available on other
> hardware. So this software encryption thing seems nice.
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