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Dale wrote: |
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> My take. Bad password, easy to guess, easy to crack because it is |
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> simple or common; not very secure even if the password is changed |
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> since one could use the old password in certain situations and get at |
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> the data. Good strong password, changed or not; hard to crack even if |
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> the whole drive is taken. |
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> Moral of the story. Have a good strong password and keep your mouth |
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> shut about what the password is, unless you want that person to spill |
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> the beans. Or you plan to knock them off later. ROFLMBO |
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> I'm not storing the secrets to some new weapon that will destroy the |
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> world and everything on it, including the roaches. Well, that last |
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> one might be OK. lol I just want it so that when I fall into the |
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> cremation chamber or a cemetery plot, it won't be easy for a person to |
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> access the drive. I'm good at the keeping password to myself bit. |
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> Still thinking on killing all the roaches tho . I'd keep that secure |
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> but I wouldn't mind being rid of those. :/ |
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> I think I need to watch a youtube video on this tho. I want to watch |
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> a person not only install it but actually use it. For example, what |
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> triggers it asking for a password and what does it look like? Is it |
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> pretty fast, take a few seconds or what? I got a lot of questions but |
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> they are things that can't be answered easily in text. Yea, gotta go |
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> visit youtube. Test drive youtube-dl again. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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OK. Found some videos and jeez, there is a ton of ways to use this. |
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You can have a password, a key file, both or likely other options as |
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well. On one video, the guy generated a key file with urandom that was |
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1024 characters. As he put it, try typing that in. Anyway, he put the |
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file in / and used the file to mount the thing automatically after some |
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setup. If however he goes to another puter, either you have to have that |
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key file on it to or type in the password. He also set it up to mount |
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automatically. |
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Then I found out about crypttab. I don't have that on my system, yet. |
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I was wondering how the system would know when a drive or partition was |
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encrypted or not. Well, there you go. Once crypttab and fstab are set |
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up, it can mount automatically. Well neato. ;-) |
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When watching a video or two, I had to google some things. I run up on |
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zulucrypt. It's a GUI that can handle several different encryption |
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tools. Yes, one should at least be familiar with command line just in |
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case the GUI doesn't work but having a GUI does make it easier. |
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I still don't think I'm ready to try and do this on a hard drive. I'm |
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certainly not going to do this with /home yet. Between this thread and |
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a few videos, pictures says a lot, it's starting to make sense. I also |
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noticed, it is really fast. One may need a stopwatch to even notice it |
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is encrypted at all. |
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I notice that one can use different encryption tools. I have Blowfish, |
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Twofish, AES and sha*** as well as many others. I know some have been |
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compromised. Which ones are known to be secure? I seem to recall that |
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after Snowden some had to be redone and some new ones popped up to make |
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sure they were secure. Thoughts?? |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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