On Friday 16 June 2006 16:47, Anders Johansson wrote:
Encrypting the files themselves is not feasible. There are a gazillion of them. (I counted.) Can you encrypt an existing file system? I suspect not.
Not presently, no
Surprised at that as you can on Windows.
Modern hard drives have a built-in password protection, that forces you to enter it on boot regardless of which machine it's in. But I've never used it and have no idea how stable/reliable/secure it is
ATA locking of hard drives is quite effective as the drive will not spin up without the correct unlock key, this system is used on the Xbox for example. I once locked a drive whilst experimenting and locked myself out, I found out that most drives have a master key installed by the manufacturer which is higher up the protection food-chain and you can use this to unlock the drive and that http://www.hddunlock.com/ make an unlock tool that has the master unlock codes built in. Therefore I'd not use it. I think that not storing sensitive data on the local hard drive is the only way to be sure. Otherwise I'd encrypt the drives. Matthew -- 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