<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">rupert</b> <<a href="mailto:rupertt@gmail.com">rupertt@gmail.com</a>><br>Date: Nov 24, 2006 9:42 AM<br>Subject: Re: Harddisk Encryption
<br>To: Jeremy Schoenhaar <<a href="mailto:jeremy@fam-schoenhaar.de">jeremy@fam-schoenhaar.de</a>><br><br></span>you can use luks-tools for creating the encrypted device.<br>I wrote a small GUI to manage encrypted LUKS-Volumes after they are created.
<br><br><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><br><br>But to have the option to encrypt the root partition by default during the installation is <br>a very good feature request !<br><br>greetings<br><br>rupertt<div><span class="e" id="q_10f1920e7c5b0e02_1"><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Jeremy Schoenhaar</b> <<a href="mailto:jeremy@fam-schoenhaar.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">jeremy@fam-schoenhaar.de</a>> wrote:</span><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<br><a href="mailto:securido@googlemail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">securido@googlemail.com</a>:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>
> Full harddisk encryption with dm_crypt, cryptsetup & LUKS works fine
<br>> under Ubuntu 6.10.<br>> (As described in<br>> <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>)<br>> However, the installation process is everything but userfriendly.
<br>> Wouldn't it be a good idea to add a new option to the disk<br>> partitioning menu in the Ubuntu installation process?<br>><br>Yes, to me that sounds like a good idea. If I find time to do any real<br>work in the next time maybe I'll have a look at making a patch to the
<br>installer, which, otherwise is very good.<br>> Full disk encryption is an important security feature, especially for<br>> mobile devices. I am quite surprised why no Linux distribution is<br>> offering this yet as a default installation option. Surely this would
<br>> be benefical for Ubuntu.<br>><br>> What's your opinion?<br><br>> Regards, securido<br> I think a saw it a few years ago on Suse, it was the only feature I<br>liked ;)<br><br>Jeremy Schoenhaar<br><br><br>
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