31 Jan
2012
31 Jan
'12
05:52
On Tuesday 31 January 2012 15:14:30 Tim Serong wrote:
The story is different if you specifically encrypt a file with GPG (or whatever) then copy that encrypted file elsewhere.
This is an important difference between block-level and file-level operations.
You really don't want to have file level encryption on your entire /home. You would need to enter your encryption key every time a file was opened. Once for .bashrc, once for .bash_history, once for .profile etc etc etc. A scheme like that would last exactly 5.4 seconds, then you'd reformat with something sane Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org