hard disk encryption for laptop

[Daniel Armstrong]

On 3/26/07, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Incidentally, there was an interesting article on "encryptfs" in this
> month's Linux Journal.  One point that stood out, was that you can mount
> the encrypted file system over the same unencrypted directory.  This
> way, when you enable the encryption, you see the "clear text" files and
> when not, you get the encrpted files.  This makes it easy to do backups,
> without having access to the key.

I will take a look for that article... Thanks for pointing it out...

I just installed Debian Etch RC2 to the laptop, and setup encrypted
partitions during the installation... Easy and straightforward... I
did a simple 3-partition scheme: unencrypted /boot, encrypted swap,
encrypted /

There is probably some performance penalty from using encryption...
but its not apparent (at least to me) during normal usage...
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists