Harddisk Encryption

[Darren Albers]

I thought that the latest Debian installer supported setting up and
installing to encrypted filesystems?  At least that is what the debian
installer page seems to indicate.

On 11/25/06, Hervé Fache <Herve at lucidia.net> wrote:
> Don't forget that Feisty will run at least a 2.6.19 (more likely a
> 2.6.20) kernel which has support for key management. That might make
> it even easier to support an encrypted root partition, but could make
> some current tools redundant or obsolete.
>
> Hervé.
>
> P.S. sorry Jeremy for the double post... gmail...
>
> On 11/24/06, Jeremy Schoenhaar <jeremy at fam-schoenhaar.de> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
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