Kai Ponte wrote:
On Thu, June 7, 2007 4:17 pm, Hans Witvliet wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:52 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile devices have encryption built in. Just wondering,
encryption costs (some) cpu-cycles. Why ebcrypting evrything under root, usr, opt, srv, etc, tmp and var? Everything there is public on the Net...
Shound't /home not be enough ??? Don't make life harder for your self then it already is..
heh - good point
That is my initial thought. One of the articles I referenced, however, mentioned how the root partition - particularly the FUBAR myriad of folders containing stuff - will have personal information. This is particularly prevelant in the tmp folder.
I suppose I could just ensure tmp gets purged everytime I boot.
Hans -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I would suggest adding in /tmp and the swap file. If you swap, the data might be contained in the swap partition. The /tmp might contains personal information, because many programs use the /tmp. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org