ecryptfs alternatives

[Michał Piotrowski]

Hi,

2013/12/12 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>

> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 15:17:33 +0000,
>   "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:33:34PM +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>>
>>> The beauty of ecryptfs is that I can encrypt one dir - not whole file
>>> system.
>>>
>>
>> What's the concern with encrypting the whole filesystem?  It's better
>> for you because you leave significant personal information all over
>> the disk, eg in log files in /var/log, in /etc files.
>
>
I'm aware of this, but I'm not so paranoid :)


> Performance-
>> wise it's not IMHO noticeable.
>>
>
> On a multi-user system one might be worried about some threats from other
> users that might be mitigated by encrypting directories.


That was the use case when I started to use ecryptfs 4.5 years ago.
Currently I can use full disc encryption for my data.


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Michal

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