2005/6/4, ken
pelibali wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 09:52:23 +0200 (CEST) kris carlier <.> wrote:
High Ciro,
I'll probably get a Latitude D610, and because i'll work with sensible information and because of that i was considering the encrypted filesystem option on SuSE 9.2 in case the laptop is stolen or something like that, but i'm not sure about how it works, maybe it's not practical to encrypt +/- 20GB of data and pretend to work normally with that every day, any hints?
if you use SuSE it'll allow you to use an encrypted partition, at bootup you can provide the password. So while you're working everything is transparent, it'll protect your data when your shutdown notebook gets stolen.
100% correct. With the encrypted filesystem you can really work transparently. At bootup the password (20< chars) will be asked and in case provided, you will have the partition as in any other case. But if no password was typed in, that filesystem is (of course) not visible. You can still mount it, but there is no chance to get it up and running without the password.
I use an encrypted ext3 partition in my daily work and I'm happy with it.
Pelibali
More precisely, the user is asked for the password at the time the partition is *mounted*. Yes, this can be at bootup but need not be.
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Thanks a lot for the answers, but i'm really worried about the the performance, lets say i want to encrypt a 20Gb /home partition, i don't want to wait +15 minutes to enryption process finish every time i shutdown the laptop, is that the way it works?, or is faster?, i've never used it Ciro