Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-10 Thread Kai Ponte
On Fri, June 8, 2007 1:29 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-06-08 at 13:06 -0400, George Stoianov wrote: Guys lets not forget that encrypting a partition is only protecting data when the computer is turned off i.e. none can just start it

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-10 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 06:39 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: On Fri, June 8, 2007 1:29 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-06-08 at 13:06 -0400, George Stoianov wrote: Guys lets not forget that encrypting a partition is only protecting data

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-08 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 03:30 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 18:12 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: That is my initial thought. One of the articles I referenced, however, mentioned how the root partition - particularly the

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-08 Thread George Stoianov
Guys lets not forget that encrypting a partition is only protecting data when the computer is turned off i.e. none can just start it and read my stuff, when it is on the partition is mounted with your password for you to use it. When that happens whether it is /home, /var or /srv it does not

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-08 Thread James Knott
George Stoianov wrote: Guys lets not forget that encrypting a partition is only protecting data when the computer is turned off i.e. none can just start it and read my stuff, when it is on the partition is mounted with your password for you to use it. When that happens whether it is /home, /var

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-06-08 at 13:06 -0400, George Stoianov wrote: Guys lets not forget that encrypting a partition is only protecting data when the computer is turned off i.e. none can just start it and Obviously. I haven't forgotten that. But

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread George Stoianov
On 6/6/07, Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-06-06 at 15:47 -0400, George Stoianov wrote: If you cannot resize I think you maybe able to create an encrypted file and mounted using some loop mechanism I cannot remember

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread Hans Witvliet
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

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread Joseph Loo
Kai Ponte wrote: 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

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread Kai Ponte
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

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 18:12 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: 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

[opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-06 Thread Kai Ponte
My new laptop (HP/Compaq nw9440) runs SUSE 10.2 exclusively. I do have vmware and cxoffice for wintendo apps but no specific partition. My only partitions are root, home and swap. My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile devices have encryption built in. Though not

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-06-06 at 11:52 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: My new laptop (HP/Compaq nw9440) runs SUSE 10.2 exclusively. I do have vmware and cxoffice for wintendo apps but no specific partition. My only partitions are root, home and swap. I would

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-06 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-06-06 at 15:47 -0400, George Stoianov wrote: If you cannot resize I think you maybe able to create an encrypted file and mounted using some loop mechanism I cannot remember exactly. That part is easy; for instance, in fstab: