I don't know if anyone mentioned using truecrypt to have a hidden operating system. haven't dont it yet but seems like an interesting way to spend a day. On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Jeremy MountainJohnson < jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > Ultimately, the length and complexity of the password / use of keys is > what makes encryption good. Nearly all the common encryption > algorithms out there are crackable if physical control is compromised > and weak keys are used. Speaking from experience, all but one below > I've been able to crack years ago with a decent gpu / distributed > processing and weak pass-phrase (less than 12 chars). Keep in mind, > more chars is not always correlated to success of encryption, refer to > targeted dictionary attacks, rainbow tables, and the chair to keyboard > factor. > > * Ubuntu (and I believe Debian) give ecryptfs option for home > directories (folder level encryption) via the gui installer. Tied to > your user account password, which is it's weakness, strong pw hashes / > salting help a lot for exposed passwd and shadow files > * TrueCrypt can also do a home directory or simple container in Linux, > with pass-phrase and various keys, but not full disk encryption unless > on Windows > * Several paid options out there, often for enterprise, McAfee is a > common one, handle full disk, complex encryption for nearly all > platforms > * More manual options include dm-crypt + LUKS, with pass-phrase and > various key options (similar to a more manual and CLI like Windows > BitLocker). Does the job well, but tough upfront learning curve > > -- > Jeremy MountainJohnson > Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 3:59 AM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > > agreed. afterall anything is possible. but little is likely. > > > > you can be as paranoid as you like. or, you can try relaxing a bit. > > > > but logic can't cure paranoia. humor perhaps has a better chance. hence > > > > "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!" > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140228/8d37f111/attachment.html>