On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:53:51 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:

> > I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days.  Given
> > the things that have come out in recent months, back doors and such,
> > what is a good program/software/tool to use that is well . . .
> > secure? Is there such a thing now?
 
> Depends on your needs, for encrypting complete devices/partitions try
> the kernels dm-crypt/luks module. If you just want to encrypt a
> directory try encfs, and for file encryption there's openssl and gpg

Definitely dm-crypt/LUKS for partitions/devices, but why use encfs which
needs FUSE, when ecryptfs does the same thing in kernel space?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Blessed be the pessimist for he hath made backups.

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