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

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Mar 27 21:02:19 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 15:56 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> David Zeuthen wrote:
> > I think Jeremy's point about using block level encryption on real disks
> > for anything but removable / hotplugable devices makes sense. I also
> > don't think we want to encrypt the entire home directory, that would
> > suck for e.g. compiles of software
> 
> Do most people do compiling?  Or heavy-duty I/O for that matter?  I 
> think that if we would right click and just say "disable encryption on 
> this directory" that would be enough.

*nod*  You'll also want to disable for, eg, ~/public_html so that apache
can actually show stuff that you're trying to show (or gnome-user-share
or whatever)

Jeremy




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