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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Zack Gilburd wrote: |
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> IIRC, we've always been leaning towards a method that would have the |
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> passphrase on a USB device that would obviously need to be present to |
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> unencrypt the filesystems on the laptop. I think that it's also important to |
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> have the good old enter-your-passphrase-at-boot decryption of one's |
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> filesystems as an option. |
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I agree, although I ended up doing that just because I was afraid of |
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losing my usb drive, or it somehow becoming currupted. If it can't find |
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the usb drive, then I have it give me a shell so I can set things up |
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manually. |
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For me, the ability to get at my data, given at least the |
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presense of both the laptop and myself, was paramount. |
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> Zack Gilburd |
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> http://tehunlose.com |
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> GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C |
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:wq |
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