[gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Hi all I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good documentation. I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my laptop. I am thinking of cryptography and other things (the password uncrypt the repository and allows to read files...). What tool to use for ?

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Stéphane Guedon steph...@22decembre.euwrote: Hi all I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good documentation. I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my laptop. I am thinking of cryptography and other things (the password

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 02.01.2012 09:07, schrieb Stéphane Guedon: Hi all I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good documentation. I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my laptop. I am thinking of cryptography and other things (the password uncrypt the repository and

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 02.01.2012 11:49, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 02.01.2012 09:07, schrieb Stéphane Guedon: Hi all I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good documentation. I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my laptop. I am thinking of cryptography and other

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Monday 02 January 2012 11:49:11 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 02.01.2012 09:07, schrieb Stéphane Guedon: Hi all I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good documentation. I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my laptop. I am thinking of cryptography

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 02.01.2012 12:36, schrieb Stéphane Guedon: On Monday 02 January 2012 11:49:11 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 02.01.2012 09:07, schrieb Stéphane Guedon: Hi all I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good documentation. I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:37:12 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Well, it is partially integrated: When it is not /home/* but some other partition/external disk, then KDE supports decrypting it when you mount it (like memory sticks). It can also save the password in kwallet. Gnome can do the same.

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Monday 02 January 2012 13:58:03 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:37:12 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Well, it is partially integrated: When it is not /home/* but some other partition/external disk, then KDE supports decrypting it when you mount it (like memory sticks). It can

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:12:31 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Alternatively, if you are using dmcrypt to encrypt /home, and you are the only user, set KDE to auto-login that user. The login will fail if dmcrypt failed to open your home partition, so one password effectively secures it all.

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 02.01.2012 14:29, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:12:31 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Alternatively, if you are using dmcrypt to encrypt /home, and you are the only user, set KDE to auto-login that user. The login will fail if dmcrypt failed to open your home partition, so

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Monday 02 January 2012 09:07:49 Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hi all I may ask something already discussed, but I can't find any good documentation. I am wondering of how to secure my home repository on my laptop. I am thinking of cryptography and other things (the password uncrypt the

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:26:10 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: In that case, you probably want to use encfs to encrypt each home directory separately. dmcrypt works on block devices, so a single home partition would have a single password. dmcrypt supports multiple simultaneous passwords (I

Re: [gentoo-user] crypt my home repository

2012-01-02 Thread Kfir Lavi
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:26:10 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: In that case, you probably want to use encfs to encrypt each home directory separately. dmcrypt works on block devices, so a single home partition would