[Discuss] Full disk encryption

[feenberg at nber.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Matthew Gillen wrote:

> On 01/03/2012 05:03 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
>> Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>>> The built-in Fedora encryption is no trouble to establish...
>> 
>> What tool do they use? Any other distributions that provide an
>> integrated solution?
>
> Fedora allows you to do whole partition/volume encryption with the installer 
> very easily.  The last time I tried Ubuntu (a couple years ago), there was an 
> option for "private" home directories.  It would create an encrypted volume 
> for your home directory that was keyed to your password.  It would then get 
> unlocked and mounted when you logged in.  Fedora does something closer to 
> WDE.

Does this work with UEFI BIOS motherboards? Does anything?

Daniel Feenberg

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