encrypted home directory / wrapped-passphrase

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 08:20:32 UTC 2012


On 07/23/2012 03:37 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:

> And, depending on which part of the world you are living in, there are
> laws which REQUIRE you (under the penalty of having your genitals
> removed with wire-cutters [if you are male that is :-) ]) to provide the
> government authorities (you know the ones) with the password you have
> used to encrypt your zip file *OR*, repeat OR, your *whole* (file)
> system for that matter! (There is discussion about this but which I
> won't go into here; but have a look in the Wikipedia, for example, about
> this subject of encryption).

Being grey haired and lazy, I've always looked askance at going the 
encryption route. I am just wondering though, if I had something that 
really needed double-naught protection can a CD or DVD be created with 
an encrypted file system, with the aforementioned Top-Secret files, in a 
ISO burn?

If the storm troopers were breaking down your doors, I guess you could 
just snap the CD/DVD in half to really screw them over when they try to 
glue an encrypted broken-in-half media back for recovery purposes.

Then bite down hard on the cyanide tablet embedded in your left rear 
molar ...for Queen and Country. <cackles> 00-Ric

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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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