Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a hard drive's data. Best method.

[Dale]

Sebastiaan L. Zoutendijk wrote:
> Dear Dale,
>
>     On Friday 5 June 2020, 11.37pm -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> Is this a secure method or is there a more secure way?  Is there any
>> known issues with using this?  Anyone here use this method?  Keep in
>> mind, LVM.  BTFRS, SP?, may come later.
>     Another thing to keep in mind: if you only encrypt your /home, it is
> possible  that some data leak out of the encrypted volume. For  example,
> if  you  use swap, then the decrypted contents of /home residing in  RAM
> can  be  swapped out. If you want to protect yourself against that,  you
> will need to encrypt the swap volume as well. The same could happen with
> temporary files, so /tmp and /var/tmp might also need special treatment.
> Aside from encrypting, tmpfs is another possibility here.
>     This  problem is similar, but slightly different, to that  described
> by  J.  Roeleveld.  Here I am talking about the contents of  your  files
> leaking, instead of the LUKS keys.
>     If  you  are going to encrypt multiple filesystems, you  can  either
> make  separate  LUKS  volumes for each of them (each LUKS  volume  being
> inside  a  partition or LVM volume, for example), or you can create  one
> LUKS volume with several LVM volumes inside.
>
>                                                               Sincerely,
>
>                                                                  Bas
>
>
> --
> Sebastiaan L. Zoutendijk | slzoutendijk@×××××.com
>
>


That's something to think on.  Right now, I'm going sorta simple and
data that if I forget the password, I still got copies of.  No big
loss.  Later on tho, that info could come in handy.  I know a guy that
has his locked down tight.  I suspect everything is password protected. 
He was in China for a bit and it was sort of a requirement. 

Off to youtube.

Dale

:-)  :-)