On 31/01/12 23:48, zep wrote:
On 31/01/12 13:10, zep wrote:
On 1/30/2012 7:44 PM, Basil Chupin wrote: From where I am sitting, this is as useless as the encryption which I am now using on my /home directory. It doesn't matter how many partitions and layers of wotnots you have - they will only work on the CURRENT system and partitions. Copy files to another medium and.....anyone can read them. I don't quite understand this; with the model I mentioned before, you'd have all your data stored in a file which is then mounted as a
On 1/31/2012 12:44 AM, Basil Chupin wrote: partition. if you wanted to back up the files, the cleanest and easiest way would be to unmount the partition, attach the external media, copy the entire large file out to external media, remount and everything's done.
I am not sure if we are on the same wavelength but when my home directory was encrypted during installation I ended with a separate partition which is specifically identified on my system as another device and it shows up in Dolphin, eg, as "362GB Encrypted Container".
The only way that this encryption would work is to encrypt each and every FILE with some GPG, or similar, key. No, I don't think that's the way it'd be done. At least you'd have to go to great lengths to implement it this way.
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