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> 1) what's the speed penalties involved ? |
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> I only have a 500Mhz Celeron chip in my laptop so I'm kinda worried it |
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> will send GNOME down the drain to encrypt the entire FS. |
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Well, I did not do any formal benchmarks but my laptop is certainly just as |
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usable as when it had a plaintext filesystem. I have not yet noticed any |
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performance issues. Of course, I'm not capturing video or any other |
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HD-intensive activities. My laptop is an iBook with a 600MHz G3. |
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> 2) Would this be applicable to encrypting specific partitions - since |
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> I've been looking at encrypting my /home on my desktop as well - most |
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> because I can though. |
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My pam_mount (http://www.flyn.org) PAM module allows one to easily use their |
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system password to unlock an encrypted home directory. I recommend it if you |
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want to avoid encrypting your whole hard drive. There is a pam_losetup module |
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out there as well that does something similar -- but I have not tried it. |
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Mike |
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