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ftornell

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Fedora encrypted volumes?

Hi,
A friend of mine installed Fedora 10 yesterday and he had the opportunity to choose if we wanted an encrypted file-system or not.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of encryption is this and how safe/secure is this?

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anrxc

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Re: Fedora encrypted volumes?

dm-crypt and LUKS are included in the installation, read all about it on the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sys … r_dm-crypt
Fedora also has good eCryptfs integration (an alternative, different implementation) http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sys … h_eCryptfs

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ftornell

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Re: Fedora encrypted volumes?

And dm-crypt, LURKS and eCryptfs Is a good choice?

Don't know which is better, truecrypt with  AES or theese ones? lets say u use a complex 20 letter, number passphrase...

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Ranguvar

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Re: Fedora encrypted volumes?

About the same in terms of brute strength, if you assume they all use similar algorithms and hashes (AES, SHA, etc.). Compare features instead. TrueCrypt is very inflexible, but offers very nice plausible deniability features (hidden volumes, etc.). LUKS is much more flexible than TrueCrypt, but is less (though not completely lacking in) multi-OS, and lacks plausible deniability. eCryptfs offers transparent encryption without even having to deal with an entire other volume, but is the slowest of the three.

Etc.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-05-28 21:32:29)

olovram

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Registered: 2008-10-10

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Re: Fedora encrypted volumes?

This comes into my mind....
http://xkcd.com/538/