loop-AES and ubuntu

[Travis Newman]

poptones wrote:

>-it is possible to mount your hom-directory through it, but only with
>ups or a laptop (you don't want to loose power on an encrypted
>file-system), so i can't test it.-
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>FWIW I have been using a loopback encrypted userland (/usr, /usr/var,
>/usr/home, /usr/tmp) partition with mandrake for quite a long time and
>have never had an issue with data loss. And mdk is REALLY not suited
>for use like this as it refuses to release the encrypted /usr to allow
>proper shutdown (ie it NEVER got shut down properly). Maybe it was just
>luck, but it worked a very long time on many machines before I switched
>to a "real" linux :)
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>If you want to protect your privacy on your laptop you really need to
>encrypt /var and /tmp and /swap as well, since userland data also gets
>stored there. I stuck them all in /usr to make it easy to mount at boot
>(ie one passphrase, no messing with keyfiles)
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I feel like I'm saying this a lot, but you should write a howto about 
this on the wiki or ubuntuforums.org