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Simplified Disk Encryption Coming to GNOME

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-it-secret-keep-it-safe dept.

An anonymous reader writes "David Zeuthen of Red Hat has been working on adding encrypted volume support to HAL. The result is an infrastructure that is being developed to make working with encrypted volumes easier. David has published a screenshot documenting his work on his blog. The bottom line: attach a properly encrypted volume and the system will prompt you for a password and automatically mount it."

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  1. Disk encryption? by vandon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Won't everyone (ie Government entities) complain that Linux is now a haven for terrorists and pedophilles since only a criminal would want to encrypt their [disk|phone call|email|http connection]?

    1. Re:Disk encryption? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If only terrorists and pedophiles use encryption, would not that same logic conclude that governments are actually organizations comprised mainly of large numbers of pedophiles and terrorists?
      Governments are one of the largest users of encryption after all.

  2. Too confusing for consumers ? by PentAthl337 · · Score: 3, Funny
    an infrastructure that is being developed to make working with encrypted volumes easier

    Maybe the new version will be called GNOME_PRO and the old will be GNOME_HOME edition?