RE: Encrypt parts of drive?

[Peter Lauri]

So if I forget to lock it and the computer is stolen then it is not
encrypted? Is the lock/unlock part just for the system to be able to read
from it?

Best regards,
Peter Lauri

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-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]
On Behalf Of Vivek J. Patankar
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 6:43 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Encrypt parts of drive?

On 2/27/07, Peter Lauri  wrote:
> How would this affect speed? I would only have customers data encrypted as
> well as my own working directory where I keep all cvs etc. System parts
> would be without encryption.

The access delay, if any, is hardly noticable. I use fuse-encfs to
store my financial data and revelation database and have not noticed
any access speed issues.
If you are encrypting your entire home directory using fuse-encfs, you
will have to unlock before you login. I would recomment creating a
secure folder within your home which you keep encrypted. Note that you
have to lock/unlock your secure directory manually.