/home on separate partition & encryption

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On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Douglas S. Saylor wrote:
> >    I'm starting to think I want to have files a separate /home
> > partition. I'm trying to sort the + & - of this set-up. Then there's
> > the question of encryption. Questions: 1) how can this be done
> > without reinstalling 11.04?
>
> This may be helpful: <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedHome>
>
> > 2) with this encryption, is it the
> > "bullet-proof" type kinda thing even the govt can't crack, or is
> > that something less than that?
>
> <http://xkcd.com/538/>
>
> One more source I would read is this one:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/search?q=ecryptfs

I believe he is the core Canonical developer who brought ecryptfs to Ubuntu.

Phil
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