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Encrypted filesystems



On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:47:28AM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> The advantage of (en|de)crypting a filesystem like that is I can
> walk up to any Linux box and use it.

Unless you trust that box you walk up to, you have to assume that your
data could be disclosed from that point on.

> The thumbdrive came with some folder crypting stuff.  I should try
> running that in wine and see what happens.  That would be
> interesting.

I forget which, but there were some *terrible* security holes found in
one of those products recently.  No effective security at all.


-kb




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