On Saturday 12 August 2006 20:22, John J. Foster wrote: > Hi, > > I've been playing with encrypting my home directory using cfs and > following the instructions at > > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS > > I guess it mostly works, although I've had cfsd die randomly a few > times in a couple days. It sorta bothers me that app-crypt/cfs is > almost 2 years old and is still testing (~x86). This is one of those > apps I'd prefer stable. > > So, before I get to settled on using this, a few questions. > > Do you encrypt your home directory? >
Yes and others as well. > What apps and/or combination of apps do you use, and why? > We use dmcrypt, which is used to encrypt loop devices as well as complete partitions. > Which ciphers do you prefer? Why? > aes-i586 keeps prying eyes out of sensitive data. > Is it well supported? > Most of it is in the kernel... so it's pretty well supported "right out of the box"... > What apps and/or files don't play well with encrytion? > None that we run. > I'm sure I'll have more questions after I've read some more. > Feel free to post here or email me directly. Cheers, Jerry. P.S. is your name foster or festus? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
