On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:32:49 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > Do you encrypt your home directory? > > I encrypt everything except /boot.
Is there any benefit in encrypting the likes of /usr and /opt? Unless you don't want anyone to know which software you have installed :) > > What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? > > dm-crypt with cryptsetup using the LUKS format. Same here, but only for /home and my backup directory. I really should encrypt swap too. > > Which ciphers do you prefer? Why? > > aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, 128bit, because it is fast. Ditto. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 10: Computer security
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