Encryption on installation

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Sun Feb 17 02:05:48 UTC 2008


On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:24:38 -0500
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> My thought is that FC8 is hardly a secret... What needs to be encrypted 
> is usually found in /home, or /usr/local. If you can restrict the 
> important data to filesystems which can be mounted after boot.

Depends on how paranoid you want to be.  I suspect that interesting things
could be found in /tmp as well, for example.

Some kind of "whole drive encryption" would be the best solution to cover all
situations -- overkill in some ways but you never know....

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