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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:20:18 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20140602102007.088c6f45@hactar.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? by Michael Hampicke |
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| 1 | On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:53:51 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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| 3 | > > I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days. Given |
| 4 | > > the things that have come out in recent months, back doors and such, |
| 5 | > > what is a good program/software/tool to use that is well . . . |
| 6 | > > secure? Is there such a thing now? |
| 7 | |
| 8 | > Depends on your needs, for encrypting complete devices/partitions try |
| 9 | > the kernels dm-crypt/luks module. If you just want to encrypt a |
| 10 | > directory try encfs, and for file encryption there's openssl and gpg |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Definitely dm-crypt/LUKS for partitions/devices, but why use encfs which |
| 13 | needs FUSE, when ecryptfs does the same thing in kernel space? |
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| 15 | |
| 16 | -- |
| 17 | Neil Bothwick |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups. |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? | Michael Hampicke <mh@××××.biz> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? | Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> |