On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> Well, actually,what I need to do is to protect the data that is on
> laptops.
Er, don't put sensitive data on laptops. If you do, expect losses.
> So it doesn't have to be encryption, just some sort of safety mechanism.
Other then encryption, I don't see what else you could use. Anything else
can be bypassed with sufficient time and expertise.
> Unfortunatly, the laptops are dual-boot with Windoze and Linux.
Man, you're twice damned. I might consider a VMware system with virtual
disk residing on a protected Linux filesystem.
Otherwise... I might look for an external, PCMCIA card, hardware encryption
solution.
> Also, I haven't found anything for like this for Linux.
I know there are encrypted filesystem enhancements for Linux. I don't know
what state they are in. I think they were based on a loopback filesystem on
top of a block encryption device on top of the disk device.
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Robert W. Fowler wrote:
> the only sure way i know of is to do the walmart demo machine "special"
> bios, and have your machine's bios have a boot locker burned in.
That would not be "sure" at all. Linux doesn't use the BIOS, so the BIOS
could not be responsible for encrypting the disk, and if the disk isn't
encrypted, all you have to do is pull it out of the laptop case and plug it
into a different machine.
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