I've been considering creating a partition on my hard drive with an encrypted filesystem for storing my financial data. Looking through the literature on how to do this, it appears that there are several competing systems around. This is something I've never done before, so I'm a little perplexed about which system is best.
Right now, the most up-to-date information I have comes from an article in LinuxFormat Magazine, December 2001 (pages 30-37). It was the cover story in that particular edition, and I think you can still download it as a PDF file from their web site (www.linuxformat.co.uk). Anyway, they seem to favor installing the cryptoapi modules at http://cryptoapi.sourceforge.net, plus the utilities at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux. It looks rather complicated, but I'm willing to try it. My question is whether or not this is the best way to go? The LinuxFormat article is more than a year out of date. I've looked through the Debian (stable) packages list, and it says nothing about cryptoapi, though a search on the word "crypt" reveals a number of other cryptographic packages such as cfs 1.4.1-7 which is also a cryptographic filesystem. Any pointers on this topic (and suggested online references) would be greatly appreciated. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
