Re: [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread czernitko
Ok, it seems I'll stick with dmcrypt using http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/DM-Crypt. Thanks for your responses guys! Peter 2011/11/30 Felix Kuperjans > Hello Peter, > > dmcrypt works perfectly without initrd as long as you do not encrypt the > root filesystem. > > So for encrypted home directori

Re: [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Hello Peter, dmcrypt works perfectly without initrd as long as you do not encrypt the root filesystem. So for encrypted home directories, you can just create and use a LUKS volume with dmcrypt (AFAIK the fastest and easy-to-use way). Regarding other techniques like gpg or truecrypt, you should k

Re: [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread czernitko
Hello, thanks for your response, Neil! As for dmcrypt usage, what do you think about truecrypt or pgp whole disk encryption as alternatives to dmcrypt? I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it, and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:19:18 +0100, czernitko wrote: > I would like to set up an encrypted partition for my /home directories > on Gentoo Hardened. Which approach do you recommend? Do you want a single encrypted filesystem, or separately encrypted home directories for each user. for the former, e

[gentoo-user] Full disk encryption

2011-11-30 Thread czernitko
Hello! I would like to set up an encrypted partition for my /home directories on Gentoo Hardened. Which approach do you recommend? Thanks, Peter