Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

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**** imagine; all of everything that is or was, can be reduced to an equation less than one inch long ! ***

okay, here's the question ... I've been reading the books included w/
the "pro" versions of Suse7.0-7.3 , but I am still unclear about how it
works , for instance it claims to hide all your data on a laptop , so if
it's "lost, strayed or the other thing " the person who relocates it
wont even know there is anything there...
The problem I have it , I have to find a way to protect files which are
mandated by federal law to be kept most secret, and only ever
transmitted w/ the express permission of the person they represent. (
gee, I hope that is deciferable enough, while letting you guys know it's
a major big deal w/ federal penalties attached, but surprisingly does
NOT concern government secrets ... ) There are two problems w/ say
packing them into a nice archive and then making certain only one person
has permission to open , read , or write to them...  the first is, they
may be required several times during a single day , and would need to be
easy to access for the fileowner , and they are sometimes required by
more than one person in the office for perfectly legal and permissable
use ... So they can't just be bundled into an archive.. and there are
sure to be several different files each day.. and archives , made easy
enough to recognise ( we may be talking about 1000's or records here,
sometimes many thousands ) the archive names would give the game away ..
and it seems to me that a clever , shall we say "hunter" or "seaker"
would know just where to go in the system, should they find a way to
tresspass it.

So my solution to be practicle ( no good dreaming up a really secure
setup if no one uses it!) was to have included this crypt file system
for the ultimate storage , and perhaps some variant for the things
needed
more daily ... or perhaps up to some time in the more recent past, would
have had some sort of archival storage which would keep casual browsers
from noticing ( after all there are what seem like thousands of SuSE's
files, for the document server and such, that are stored on one of the
boxen here as archived files ... and these might be given some sort of a
numbering system instead of names of the records , perhaps?

Any help or locations to search , specific to a suse distro would be
most helpful ... I have, as I said , read the most obvious ones .. man
pages and so on ....
TIA

--
j

afterthought : Law of Probability Dispersal:Whatever it is that hits
the fan will not be evenly distributed.