Encrypted Filesystem Wiki Cleanup

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Bodhi Zazen
<bodhi.zazen at montanalinux.org> wrote:
> I suggest spiting into 3 pages :
>
> 1. LUKS - Used by the alternate CD for encrypted FS
>
> * You may wish to include some info on LVM as the alternate CD installs LVM as well as LUKS
>
> 2. Encryptfs - Used on all installs for private crypts in $HOME

Note that this should be "eCryptfs".   I recently created
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory to
document this new feature in Ubuntu Intrepid.  It uses eCryptfs as the
base encrypted filesystem technology.

> 3. Truecrypt - Cross platform.
>
> The first two are currently used by Ubuntu obviously. It seems part of the problem was that rather then maintaining pages, in the past people just went and started a new.

Truecrypt has some serious licensing issues.

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2008-October/000276.html


:-Dustin