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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">There's a couple of ways
you can go. Here's my experience, based on the Debian Lenny and
Squeeze distros.<br>
<br>
1. If you want to encrypt a file system within a file on a removable
media, you might want to take a look at Truecrypt (truecrypt.org). It
works on Windows, Mac, Linux and probably the *BSDs. I use this for
removable media encryption. It's easy to use and provides for what it
calls hidden volumes. This is essentially an encrypted volume within a
volume and provides plausible deniability Use it to stash stuff you
really don't want to be found.<br>
<br>
2. The cryptsetup(8) provides a Linux package to setup encrypted disk
partitions using the dm-crypt device mapper. I use this for my hard
drives in my netbook and laptop. The latest Debian distro has
integrated encrypted file systems making it easy to setup as a part of
the installation. I don't remember if it's a part of the Lenny install
as it's been a while since I've installed Lenny. It uses the LUKS
(Linux Unified Key Setup) to manage the disk encryption keys. You'll
be asked for a password upon bootup. It's relatively easy to setup and
use. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/">http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/</a> for more information.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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Joshua Kramer wrote:
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cite="mid:alpine.LFD.2.00.1101252151270.21236@localhost.localdomain"
type="cite"><br>
<blockquote type="cite">My 'Split' plan was to just encrypted
external media, of which most of are
<br>
installed all the time. On a Netbook, maybe just encrypt a large SD
card and
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Well, if all I wanted to store was documents it wouldn't be a biggie.
But then I thought... hey... all the passwords I have stored in the
browser, I don't want those floating around either, so I'd like to have
my .mozilla directory also encrypted. It was just easier to encrypt
the whole home directory.
<br>
<br>
It looks like I'm going to need a few hours to study how the fuse-based
encryption under RedHat works. I have a couple of encrypted partitions
on my disk but it's not clear how they work. I can decrypt them if I
enter the root password first...
<br>
<br>
Does anyone know of a good step-by-step document about how this works?
<br>
<br>
Thanks,
<br>
-Josh<br>
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