On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 07:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > what's on the leading edge regarding encrypted filesystems on linux > these days? everything suggests ecryptfs, but i just want to know > what the other viable (and relatively modern) alternatives are. > thanks. > > rday > > -- > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day > Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry > Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA > > http://crashcourse.ca > ======================================================================== > I use the cryptsetup-luks package. I have a USB drive partitioned in two slices, first one formatted VFAT the other setup using LUKS and formatted ext2. I plug in my thumb drive, it auto-detects both partitions, mounts the VFAT and asks for a password for the other then mounts it. It can use any crypto scheme compiled into the kernel, I use aes-cbc-essiv:sha256. --Tim
