On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 01:02, Guy Van Sanden wrote:

> Entering the password at bootup is the only draw-back for me.
> The partition can be encrypted for with a single key for all users, as it will be 
> only me and my wife using it.
> The encryption is mainly intended to keep third parties out (for example if the 
> portable gets stolen)

Shouldn't be a problem then, but as PlugHead pointed out, the encrypted
partitions were limited to 2GB (don't know if this is true in 9.1) and
that doesn't take long to fill these days.

> I'll take a look at mkcryptfs, sounds good.
> Have you ever had trouble with your system crashing and the containers getting 
> damaged?
> My laptop sometimes hangs when it comes out of suspend...

Once when my machine hung, I lost a file that I had open for editing,
but the container itself was fine.

With a suspend, I would be inclined to unmount the container before
suspending, for safety.

-- 
...Rob
 
-- "If we put on a unique index we might end up with referential integrity." -- 
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