On 8/12/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you encrypt your home directory?
I encrypt everything except /boot.
What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why?
dm-crypt with cryptsetup using the LUKS format.
Which ciphers do you prefer? Why?
aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, 128bit, because it is fast.
Is it well supported?
In the kernel, about as well supported as you can get.
What apps and/or files don't play well with encrytion?
The only real impact this has is that backups use a lot more CPU time, since I have to decrypt the data from one drive, compress it, and then re-encrypt it to write to another drive. Then again, multi-core processors are cheap! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
