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Seeking Current Info on Linux Encrypted FS?

Posted by Cliff on from the protecting-your-personal-data dept.

slick_rick asks: "I'm looking for info on encrypted file systems under Linux to help my employers company move away from Microsoft centric solutions. However the latest HOWTO is two years old, the latest kernel patch dates back to April (and 2.4.3) and even the Sourceforge project has nearly zero documentation and appears to be very dead. Are slashdotters using encrypted file systems? If so, what are your experiences?" We last talked about this topic, just over a year ago, in this article.

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  1. Maybe for you.... by coyote-san · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe you need deniability, but out here in the real world a lot of people should be using encrypted file systems just to ensure that sensitive or confidential information is not exposed to others if the disk is stolen, the cleaning people are bored, etc.

    Personally, I don't want my doctor to have deniability about his records regarding me. Or my lawyer. Or my accountant. And most especially not my banker, financial adviser, etc.

    In fact, for these people deniability makes a solution look much less attractive. People get *really* nervous when their accountant or lawyer has strong deniability about what the advice they gave you, about where your money went, etc.

    --
    For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
  2. Re:SuSE does this out of the box... by pwagland · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Indeed the patch is available.

    Also, you can get all of the patches that SuSE use on their kernel, not only this one. Please note that this link is

    1. A mirror of the official SuSE site, and
    2. The SuSE development kernel. I.e. this kernel is not guaranteed for production use!
    3. The production kernel source is here.