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Five of the Best Free Linux Disk Encryption Tools
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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FYI: http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/2011040308270275/DiskEncryption.html
The submitter had the link (check Firehose), but it seems that the edititors deemd the submission to be too long and chopped it off. After all, this is Slashdot and nobody RTFAs anyway.
eCryptfs is the default disk encryption technology shipping in Ubuntu. You can turn it on from the installer. How does that not make the list? I've never even heard of SD4L.
Because of these reasons:
http://www.privacylover.com/encryption/analysis-is-there-a-backdoor-in-truecrypt-is-truecrypt-a-cia-honeypot/
Don't misunderstand me, I like Truecrypt. But security must also involve trust, and, to date, there is no total transparency about Truecrypt's developers.