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On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:48 -0500, "Michael Gomboc" <[email protected]> wrote: A new installation of Ubuntu with encrypted LVM is more than easy! Check the link for help (It's Ubuntu 7.10, but there is no big difference) [2]http://news.softpedia.com/news/Encrypted-Ubuntu-7-10-68383.sht ml It doesn't cover a dual-boot situation...that's the hard one to do. Of curse you can encrypt only your swap, but why not encrypt the hole system? 2011/1/4 <[3][email protected]> -- [4][email protected] On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:16 -0500, "Roger Dingledine" <[5][email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:14:09PM +0100, [6][email protected] wrote: > > I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and Tor browser bundle with scripts forbidden. > > > > Does any of my web search results or web pages (or anything else during > > the web session) I look at get sent to or put on the SWAP partition of > > my machine? > > Could be. The Tor Browser Bundle for Linux is just an ordinary > application. It doesn't control your swap either way. You don't start > it as root, so it can't. > > I'd suggest that you should be using encrypted swap by default. Everybody > should. > I sure would LOVE to know an easy way to encrypt my swap. My plan had been to do a fresh reinstallation of Ubuntu 10.04 on my dual-boot machine but I got to the "encrypt the disk" portion of the installation using Alternate CD and quit. There were too many questions or settings that I had no idea what to enter. > --Roger > > ***************************************************************** ****** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [7][email protected] with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. [8]http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > -- [9]http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... ***************************************************************** ****** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [10][email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. [11]http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ -- Michael Gomboc [12]www.viajando.at pgp-id: 0x5D41FDF8 References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Encrypted-Ubuntu-7-10-68383.shtml 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. mailto:[email protected] 8. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ 9. http://www.fastmail.fm/ 10. mailto:[email protected] 11. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ 12. http://www.viajando.at/ -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin

