HDD encryption

[Sir Light]

Nathan,

I just did a Fedora install of my new laptop. When I setup the disk partitions, there was an option to encrypt a whole partition. I did so for my /home1 partition. When it booted, it asked for the passphase for my /home1 partition. 

There is a GENTOO How-to page on it at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_LUKS_and_pam_mount that explains how it is done. 

Something you might want to look into. 

Jon


 ---- Joe <joe at nationnet.com> wrote: 
 > That's a really good question Nathan. I've used encfs for directories 
 > since it's so easy to install and use, but it's not for whole disk 
 > encryption. I haven't tried WDE because I wasn't sure what the different 
 > distros would support and if you ever have to use a rescue disk it would 
 > make it that much harder to get to the drive. It will be interesting to 
 > see what other have tried.
 > 
 > Nathan wrote:
 > > Does anyone know of a good comparison article between truecrypt and dm-crypt. 
 > > I am interested in full drive encryption, partition encryption, and file 
 > > encryption. Not just usability but design strengths and weaknesses, which is 
 > > better and for what/why...
 > >
 > > Nathan