Isn't it time for the encrypted file system???

[W. Michael Petullo]

> Received an FedEX from  Fidelity  this morning seems, one of their
> laptops was stolen.  On the laptop, was the Personal information,
> including Social Security number,  of everyone in the HP Retirement
> plan  (I suppose this includes DEC/Compaq and HP.  They have us jumping
> through hoops and going to Credit Agencies to watch for unusual activity.
> Now if the system had been encrypted ...  Now why was this data on a
> laptop? I don't know.
>
> 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.

Please see:

Encrypted swap
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127378

Encrypted root filesystem
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124789

Removable encrypted devices (Mostly done, thanks to David Zeuthen)
http://www.flyn.org/easycrypto/easycrypto.html

Implementing Encrypted Home Directories (using pam_mount)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6481

Encrypt Your Root Filesystem
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7743

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Mike Petullo