Suggestion: Leaky temp directory with encrypted home directories

Dustin Kirkland kirkland at canonical.com
Fri Jul 2 15:41:12 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Sindhudweep Sarkar
<sindhudweep.sarkar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Possibly, but for those really interested in preventing leaks, using ram is
> no help either.
>
> A fair number of attacks using liquid nitrogen or other cryogenics have been
> done recently.

If that's what you're concerned about, then neither eCryptfs nor any
other disk encryption mechanism for Windows, Mac, or Linux is going to
help you.

Dustin




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