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On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 05:41:49PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
What is the best security? What are the reasonable options? For a current Linux distro.
I assume you mean "For a current version of SuSE" there? ;-)
One could encrypt the file system. This seems a bit much. 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.
Partition the disk and put all your interesting stuff on the encrypted partition? That way, you don't need to have access to the encrypted disk to boot and use the machine, but you do need it to do anything with the source code. If you don't want to repartition the disk, perhaps you could create a large file in the existing partition and mount it as a loopback encrypted file system? IMHO it seems that an encrypted FS is the solution you really need. Disclaimer: I have no experience of encrypted file systems, so I could be talking complete rubbish. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 -- 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