---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: rupert <<a href="mailto:rupertt@gmail.com">rupertt@gmail.com</a>> Date: Nov 24, 2006 9:42 AM Subject: Re: Harddisk Encryption To: Jeremy Schoenhaar <<a href="mailto:jeremy@fam-schoenhaar.de">jeremy@fam-schoenhaar.de</a>> you can use luks-tools for creating the encrypted device. I wrote a small GUI to manage encrypted LUKS-Volumes after they are created. <a href="http://gnomefiles.com/app.php/CryptoMaster" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://gnomefiles.com/app.php/CryptoMaster </a> But to have the option to encrypt the root partition by default during the installation is a very good feature request ! greetings rupertt<div> <div>On 11/24/06, Jeremy Schoenhaar <<a href="mailto:jeremy@fam-schoenhaar.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jeremy@fam-schoenhaar.de</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Am Donnerstag, den 23.11.2006, 15:43 +0100 schrieb <a href="mailto:securido@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">securido@googlemail.com</a>: > Hello, > > Full harddisk encryption with dm_crypt, cryptsetup & LUKS works fine > under Ubuntu 6.10. > (As described in > <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemHowto2" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemHowto2 </a>) > However, the installation process is everything but userfriendly. > Wouldn't it be a good idea to add a new option to the disk > partitioning menu in the Ubuntu installation process? > Yes, to me that sounds like a good idea. If I find time to do any real work in the next time maybe I'll have a look at making a patch to the installer, which, otherwise is very good. > Full disk encryption is an important security feature, especially for > mobile devices. I am quite surprised why no Linux distribution is > offering this yet as a default installation option. Surely this would > be benefical for Ubuntu. > > What's your opinion? > Regards, securido I think a saw it a few years ago on Suse, it was the only feature I liked ;) Jeremy Schoenhaar -- ubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel </a> </blockquote></div> </div>