On 2/2/2012 8:01 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 03/02/12 12:53, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Basil Chupin
[02-02-12 20:21]: Thanks for this. As I stated, I didn't know how the encryption worked because I have never bothered with it. But I have learnt a lot from all the comments made in this thread and I have been "heducated" somewhat on this subject :-) . I shall now go away and have a look at how to encrypt my external HDD. Just make sure you use "open source" to do it, not that included in the drive mechanics or your computer hardware.
Just a follow-up to what I wrote earlier.
I just read the wikipedia entry for TrueCrypt and now found that in 12.1 there is REALCRYPT v7.0a-2.6 which is rebranded TrueCrypt (to allow for alterations to be made - GPL licencing I guess).
Any contras to my installing REALCRYPT in Yast?
BC
Basil - I have been using both RealCrypt and TrueCrypt for years now... Both work fine, are interchangeable and are well thought out. Had no troubles installing RealCrypt via Yast. One of your worries, being forced to divulge the password is also covered. You can have a hidden encrypted volume within another encrypted volume, which requires a separate password to unlock. If force to "give up" a password, you give the password for the outer encrypted volume. There is no way to determine if an inner encrypted volume even exists, thus giving you plausible denial ability.... I dunno about encrypting your entire home directory, never tried to... I simply create the encrypted volume(s) somewhere convenient and mount it with RealCrypt when I need to access it. I do this both on my internal hard drives, and on portable USB drives with no problems... HTHs Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org