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| From: | Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository | ||
| Date: | Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:25:51 | ||
| Message-Id: | CAHNvW1JLHzO0mxXWma5C5Pn3Z9RSdE1ZHE9=eGpf=ZcWK5Z8XQ@mail.gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository by "Stéphane Guedon" |
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| 1 | On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Stéphane Guedon <stephane@××××××××××.eu>wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Hi all |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good |
| 6 | > documentation. |
| 7 | > I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my laptop. I am |
| 8 | > thinking |
| 9 | > of cryptography and other things (the password uncrypt the repository and |
| 10 | > allows to read files...). |
| 11 | > |
| 12 | > What tool to use for ? Anybody knows a good doc (in french would be really |
| 13 | > good) ? |
| 14 | > |
| 15 | > I am not really paranoïd, but I work now in a quite important environnement |
| 16 | > and want any data I get out to be secured... |
| 17 | > -- |
| 18 | > Stéphane Guedon |
| 19 | > http://www.22decembre.eu/ |
| 20 | > http://lectures.22decembre.eu/ |
| 21 | > carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf |
| 22 | > |
| 23 | |
| 24 | You can use 'encfs'. It is really trivial. |
| 25 | You need to create a directory where you will put the encrypted files like |
| 26 | this: |
| 27 | encfs ~/.encdir ~/workdir |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Read this for a lot more info: |
| 30 | http://movingtofreedom.org/2007/02/21/howto-encfs-encrypted-file-system-in-ubuntu-and-fedora-gnu-linux/ |
| 31 | |
| 32 | But, what I told you is basically what you need. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | Regards, |
| 35 | Kfir |