Harddisk Encryption

[Jeremy Schoenhaar]

Am Freitag, den 24.11.2006, 18:33 +0100 schrieb Frouin Jean-Michel:
> Personally I use cryptsetup for my crypted hdd !
> Very simple to use and very secure
> 
> sudo apt-get install cryptsetup
> 
> To create an encrypted disk (umount it first) then :
> cryptsetup create crypt /dev/sda1 (if sda1 is your hdd partition to crypt)
> then
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/crypt
> Now you can mount it : mount /dev/mapper/crypt /media/MySecureHDD
> work with it then umount :)
> cryptsetup remove crypt
> 
> To remount : cryptsetup create crypt /dev/sda1 THEN mount /dev/mapper/crypt
> /media/MySecureHDD
> 
> I hope this help :)
> 
> Selon Anthony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at earthlink.net>:
> 
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Cryptsetup is a very good app, I have also used it myself. However it is
hardly usable for a newbie trying to setup an encrypted /home, swap
or /tmp. If parts of cryptosetup could be integrated into the installer
though....

Jeremy Schoenhaar