Harddisk Encryption

[Karoliina Salminen]

On 11/27/06, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
> Op maandag 27-11-2006 om 11:47 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jeremy
> Schoenhaar:
> > That is of course a very good point. Perhaps a checkbox with the word
> > Encrypt|_| next to every partition except /boot would be the solution.
> > (Although I hardly trust your average Joe to know what the
> > consequenses would be)
>
> > ps Checkbox was ment for gtk/fb installer, no ncurses. And I still
> > have to get to looking at the acuall code
>
> As this is mainly targeted at 1. business users and 2. experienced
> users, it shouldn't be in the live CD installer where it would only
> confuse most users, but it could be an advanced option in the
> alternative installer, to be used by (company) sysadmins.

This is a possible solution allthough it doesn't make the encrypting
very easy. Suse on the other hand provides possibility to encrypt
partitions at install time (it is actually in the partition editor an
option).

However, the assumption of company sysadmins installing
Linux may be not so accurate. In many cases it is the employees
themselves who install Linux since they can do it better than the
sysadmins who are more Windows-oriented in some cases. E.g. which
sysadmin would come and install (currently unstable, experimental)
Ubuntu Feisty for me? I am using Feisty at work...

Best Regards,
Karoliina