Hi all, I've just given 8.2 a spin after being a lifelong RedHat user,
and I love Mandrake - it's got some great features and is a very
progressive distribution. 

One of the most interesting features to me in this release is the
filesystem encryption, which is working great on my laptop. I'd like to
learn more about how Mandrake implements this. Could anyone answer the
following questions?

- What packages are needed for the encrypted fs support?

- Where are the encryption keys stored? 

- Is the stock kernel specially patched with the kerneli.org patches? 

- Can anyone point me to some good documentation about the method of
filesystem encryption that Mandrake 8.2 uses? (not the encryption
algorithm, but how to configure and administer it)

One of my intentions is to move the encryption keys onto a floppy, so
that a floppy disk would also need to be mounted to read the encrypted
fs. I'm guessing that moving the keys onto the floppy and then
symlinking them to /mnt/floppy should do the trick, if it's as
straightforward as I hope. 

Thanks a bunch,

Scott

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Scott A. Garman
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