How necessary is total hard drive encryption of a average linux laptop for small business use, personal stuff? How many of you all do it? I have been casually reading up on it for the past month or so. It seems like a good topic for a local workshop.
1) I am really concerned with useablilty I hate typing especially allot of passphseses. 2) I loose USB sticks, making a bootable USB is a PTIA. 3) I am not really a target for theft since A)I am poor (no million dollar ban accounts) and B) My laptop is old and not a MAC. 4) I herd that if you get taken to court or anything you have to decrypt it anyway. 5) Encrypting the whole thing is a performance hit. 6)Making a custom initramfs for a distro seams like a real PITA. 7)Encryption does not work well with several different disrtos using the same /home. 8)My personal photos on line publicly anyway that is 50% of my /home disk use the major use is music. I am considering just encrypting the /home or part of the /home. However it is recomended to just encrypt the entire drive. Some links to things I have read: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Encrypt_Your_Home_Directory_Using_CFS http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/disk-cryptography.xml Any thoughts or ideas? -- Cheers Turtle
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