Encrypted Dapper filesystems?

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Sat Jun 10 09:47:32 UTC 2006


pulver wrote:
> Cons:
> Somewhat performance loss. 

This can be minimized if you only encrypt personal files and not 
programs. Really, why should I care if Gnome and OpenOffice are 
encrypted? It's my data that is private. And my data has the least 
impact on performance (OpenOffice takes more disk space than my documents).

> Change of standards could brake the functionality, upgrading to the
> latest bleeding edge stuff could make the system unusable/unbootable,
> if you don't know what you're doing. In these cases, some tweaking and
> fiddeling may be needed to get around this.

Encrypting only your data would also address this problem.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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the light reflected a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no
rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a
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