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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-06-20 at 00:27 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
Some points to think about: What is the advantage of encrypting the whole drive? the O.S. is open source, no secrets there to be found. Just have some area's strongly encrypted. Each with a different passphrase. Passwords/passphrases only needed when you access that specific area.
Some more ideas: Encrypted partitions can not be automatically umounted, for instance, when the screen saver/locker fires: if one file is opened, it will fail. If the laptop can be suspended to disk, the passphrase is stored in clear text somewhere in the swap partition - and of course, the encrypted partition remains open all the time. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD4DBQFEmZqitTMYHG2NR9URAn4BAJd6YCTqzPqzXRL3NE4tCJaSJBtvAJ0ejfVH uUJ0Wd+hrqrwgejCUaEEAQ== =kVEd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com