Kai Ponte wrote: > On Thu, June 7, 2007 4:17 pm, Hans Witvliet wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:52 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: >> >>> My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile >>> devices have encryption built in. >> Just wondering, >> >> encryption costs (some) cpu-cycles. >> Why ebcrypting evrything under root, usr, opt, srv, etc, tmp and var? >> Everything there is public on the Net... >> >> Shound't /home not be enough ??? >> Don't make life harder for your self then it already is.. > > heh - good point > > That is my initial thought. One of the articles I referenced, however, > mentioned how the root partition - particularly the FUBAR myriad of > folders containing stuff - will have personal information. This is > particularly prevelant in the tmp folder. > > I suppose I could just ensure tmp gets purged everytime I boot. >> Hans >> -- >> pgp-id: 926EBB12 >> pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 >> Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) >> -- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > I would suggest adding in /tmp and the swap file. If you swap, the data might be contained in the swap partition. The /tmp might contains personal information, because many programs use the /tmp.
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