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Five of the Best Free Linux Disk Encryption Tools

Posted by Roblimo on from the some-things-are-best-kept-out-of-public-view dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Disk encryption uses software to encrypt the entire hard disk. The onus is therefore not on the user to determine what data should be encrypted, or to remember to manually encrypt files. By encrypting the entire disk, temporary files, which may reveal important confidential data, are also protected. Security is enhanced further when disk encryption is combined with filesystem-level encryption. To provide an insight into the open source software that is available, we have compiled a list of five notable disk encryption tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants easy-to-use data encryption and security."

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  1. Link? List? by Goose+In+Orbit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or a linked list even?

    1. Re:Link? List? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Informative

      Here. Not so hard, but bog - can't the submitter figure that out? Slow down, guys, nobody is gonna scoop you on this stuff.

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  2. encfs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really, no encfs? Used it for years -- works great, never had any hiccups with it.

  3. There can be only one by RenHoek · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.truecrypt.org/

    There we go.. I don't understand this is still a question.

    1. Re:There can be only one by westyvw · · Score: 4, Informative

      I used to set up encryption using fuse and encfs. That worked well enough for me. The problem I have with Truecrypt is that I have to define a file size before hand. Is there a function for Truecrypt to use cowfs or auto resizing files?

    2. Re:There can be only one by asnelt · · Score: 3, Informative

      Sorry, I just noticed that you can now distribute modified versions of TrueCrypt. They must have changed the license.

  4. Here is the link from the submission by Meshach · · Score: 1, Informative

    http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/2011040308270275/DiskEncryption.html

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  5. Re:loopback-AES changed recently? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The default cipher and flags changed, be sure to find out what they used to be.

    I had this problem too and by setting explicit opt got it working

  6. Submission untouched by human hands by countertrolling · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's an ad link site.. Turn off your cookies on these guys..

    Information that is provided to advertisers consists of aggregate statistics that we collate. This includes geographical and psychographic* information.

    When links are submitted to our site, we request that the sender provides us with their real name and email address.

    You know the routine..

    *Huh??

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