On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:17:56PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Horst Pflugstaedt: > > > I just ask myself why you bother encrypting a filesystem that will be > > accessible to anyone having access to the machine since it boots without > > password? > > You can return hard disks to the vendor for warranty claims even if > they still contain sensitive data.
even if the disk boots in another machine, thus revealing the sensitive data? If there is no protection to the encryption, encrypting a filesystem is just useless waste of cpu-time. As Jan pointed out: you need a secret for encryption. g'night Horst > -- "No, no, I don't mind being called the smartest man in the world. I just wish it wasn't this one." -- Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, WATCHMEN -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
