Peter Albrecht schrieb: > Hi Donald, > >>> 3. encrypted filesystems >>> >>> I'm thinking that the time isn't right for this. Someone at the office >>> won't stop pestering me about them, though, so... >>> >> I have to agree with you on this. As far as I know, Debian is the only >> distro that provides out-of-the-box filesystem encryption, and I don't >> know if it's used that widely. I haven't investigated the add-on >> products for other distros, so I can't really comment about them. > > I think it is useful to cover this, especially after all those security > issues that happened in the past months (authorities and military in the > US and Europe losing their laptops with secret data). > > Other thoughts?
I think this really ought to be covered. Full encryption especially on mobile equipment is a must have in my opinion. Especially with sensitive data on the laptop (or netbook or whatever), I'm thinking about company data here (sales stuff, tech docs, other secret internal data). So it really should be covered, even if RedHat doesn't support it. Debian, Ubuintu and probably Suse (See Peters post) support it out of the box and pretty much any Linux can be made to support it with (almost) whole disk encryption (except for a small boot partition unless you want to boot from CD or other removable media). Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
