N00bie questions about encrypted file systems.

Peter Connolly psconnolly at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 07:57:10 UTC 2007


Backups are a wonderful thing.


On 6/13/07, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
>
> Charles Curley writes:
> : On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 07:51:30PM -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> : >=20
> : > Charles Curley writes:
> :
> : > : Let us know how you do with it; I'm probably not the only person who
> : > : would like to try it.
> : >=20
> : > Thanks Charles.  Since a working laptop is crucial on this trip, I'm
> : > a little leery to be the first on my block to try it.  On the other
> : > hand the consequences of the laptop being stolen would be very bad.
> : > That and the (lack of) free time I have to make this work makes me
> : > nervous.
> :
> : I may have given an incorrect impression. My reason for not trying it
> : has been lack of time and lack of an immediate requirement. I share a
> : list with Mr. Halcrow. From some of the things he has said there and
> : looking at ecryptfs, I expect it is a solid product that will perform
> : as advertised.
>
> Thanks Charles.  From the review of the .rpm it is obvious
> that Mr. Halcrow is careful and  thorough. But given that this
> process could (w/ small probability) destroy my filesystem,
> I am still a tiny bit nervous. Fear of the Unknown I suppose.
>
> Dean
>
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