On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 10:13 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: > 2008/10/3 Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Evening all > > > > A quick question on how the forthcoming encryption will work. > > > > Can it be set up to allow root to access the encrypted files as well as the > > legitimate owner? > > > > Ian > > > > Hi Ian, > > I don't know the details of the proposal yet, but I seem to recall > that it's using something like cryptfs or luks (I could have those > terms slightly wrong). If so, then the files won't be accessible to > root.
Hi Neil, I believe you are correct. It's using "ecryptfs", so you are pretty close. I believe root won't be able to read the files, unless it is given the secret key used to encrypt them. Thanks, James -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
