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Locking Up Linux, Creating a Cryptobook

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the operational-paranoia dept.

Tom's Hardware has a nice overview about some of the latest ways to secure your data looking specifically at open source solutions that wont lock down your credit card. Since many people presented performance issues for why they don't implement encryption there was also special attention given to how well your system will perform after implementation of encryption. From the article: "At least where LUKS is concerned, performance is hardly an issue - one must expect to pay some penalty for additional encryption facilities that handle unencrypted data transparently. All of these solutions are simple to set up and use on a daily basis, but LUKS is portable across Windows and Linux platforms."

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  1. Gee, I should have submitted this.... by Penguin+Follower · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was reading that Tom's article this morning around 8am EST. Oh well!

  2. Transfer saved video from old to new would sell me by DrTime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have two DirecTV Tivo units and I will keep them until they die unless the replacement offered has a way to transfer my saved videos to it. All I ask for is a one time transfer. Through a software download update, they enable a USB to Ethernet or USB to USB way to connect my old machines to the new one and transfer my videos. They can even be deleted from the old machine as they are copied.

    Of course having some decent HD content would also help.

    Letting me get files from the DCR to my computer would be nice, but is not realistic.