Encrypted filesystem HOWTO
daniel posted this on May 11th 2005 under Howto
The need of securing data on laptops is high. Politicians and police officers get there laptop stolen and vital information comes into the wrong hands. I had the same problem. As a webdeveloper my laptop contains the sources of all the projects including the database credentials in config files and so on.
This is how i use an encrypted filesystem to store important stuff.
At this time i use Gentoo linux with kernel 2.6.8. I asume you know how to build your own kernel. Any other Linux distrubution should also work fine.
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