On Thu, June 7, 2007 4:17 pm, Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:52 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: > >> My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile >> devices have encryption built in. > > Just wondering, > > encryption costs (some) cpu-cycles. > Why ebcrypting evrything under root, usr, opt, srv, etc, tmp and var? > Everything there is public on the Net... > > Shound't /home not be enough ??? > Don't make life harder for your self then it already is..
heh - good point That is my initial thought. One of the articles I referenced, however, mentioned how the root partition - particularly the FUBAR myriad of folders containing stuff - will have personal information. This is particularly prevelant in the tmp folder. I suppose I could just ensure tmp gets purged everytime I boot. > > Hans > -- > pgp-id: 926EBB12 > pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 > Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
