On Sunday 26 November 2006 16:22, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Need suggestions for a good lockbox -- a specialized application or an
> appropriate technique for locking away sensitive personal information.
>
I'd recommend instead using encrypted file system - such as fuse-encfs - its
easy to use and everything you put into the private directory is encrypted.
You can toss your firefox directory in there too and add a soft link in the
~/mozilla/firefox - so all your browser info is encrypted. And by saving
things underneath Private/visible they will be kept secure.
Quick insructions:
(1) [as root]
# yum install fuse-encfs
(2) [as user create a place to hold the encrypted files
and a 'mount' point to see the decrypted visible versions of same]
% mkdir ~/Private/.encrypted ~/Private/visible
(3) [Now set up a password to encrypt/decrypt]
Remember it. Run this every time you are ready to use it.]
% encfs ~/Private/.secret ~/Private/visible
(4) Use ~/Private/visible -
whatever goes in there will look normal, but will
actually be stored encrypted in ~/Private/.encrypted
(5) To ensure this is shutoff when you logogg in kde
put this script in ~/.kde/shutdown
#!/bin/bash
#
#
fusermount -u ~/Private/visible
Enjoy.
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