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On Saturday 12 August 2006 20:22, John J. Foster wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I've been playing with encrypting my home directory using cfs and |
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> following the instructions at |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS |
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> I guess it mostly works, although I've had cfsd die randomly a few |
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> times in a couple days. It sorta bothers me that app-crypt/cfs is |
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> almost 2 years old and is still testing (~x86). This is one of those |
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> apps I'd prefer stable. |
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> So, before I get to settled on using this, a few questions. |
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> Do you encrypt your home directory? |
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Yes and others as well. |
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> What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? |
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We use dmcrypt, which is used to encrypt loop devices as well as complete |
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partitions. |
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> Which ciphers do you prefer? Why? |
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aes-i586 keeps prying eyes out of sensitive data. |
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> Is it well supported? |
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Most of it is in the kernel... so it's pretty well supported "right out of the |
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box"... |
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> What apps and/or files don't play well with encrytion? |
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None that we run. |
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> I'm sure I'll have more questions after I've read some more. |
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Feel free to post here or email me directly. |
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Cheers, Jerry. |
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P.S. is your name foster or festus? |
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