Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-20 Thread Dave Patterson
* Dave Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 21:31:19 +0700]: A how-to here: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1074 Has been changed to: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1116 -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 12:02:42 -]: Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted filesystem? It depends on how you want to do this. If you want a completely encrypted

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:31:19PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 12:02:42 -]: Do I need to make an extra, unused partition when I install Debian on a new computer, before I try to use cryptsetup to add an encrypted filesystem? It

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Dave Patterson
* Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 15:58:19 +0100]: In my opinion it is more secure to keep confidential data in a dedicated encrypted partition which is only initialised and mounted when really needed. If you are really paranoid, you can remove your network connection whenever

Re: setting up partition before cryptsetup

2006-07-19 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:17:33PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: * Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-19 15:58:19 +0100]: In my opinion it is more secure to keep confidential data in a dedicated encrypted partition which is only initialised and mounted when really needed. If you are