Crypto filesystems keep your data safe even if someone steals your computer. Linux offers a number of encrypted filesystem options, each with a different approach to the encryption problem. Encrypted filesystems may be overkill for family photos or your resume, but they make sense for network-accessible servers that hold sensitive business documents, databases that contain credit-card information, offline backups, and laptops.
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May 29th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Personally, I’m using encfs with libpam-encfs.
See here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FolderEncryption#head-5616e239f4494cf6c20d2e4f695fdb2f7c55c9ee
May 31st, 2007 at 7:49 am
TrueCrypt rocks.
Solid design, choice of cipher and hash, and it works under Linux _and_ Windows.
Heck, I even mount a NTFS-formatted TrueCrypt volume from a file located on NTFS partition (praise ntfs-3g).
Works like a charm