AES Encryption for /home and /SWAP

mindhack · 2009-05-06

I posted these in the Ubuntu subforum but I figured they would be useful here to. If your not running a debian based Linux distro, you will need to modify the commands a bit. /home encryption This tutorial will explain how to setup an encrypted /home partition. It was done using a fresh install, but could be done with a previous install (would need some changes in how its done). [URL]http://www.mindhack.us/?p=168[/URL] SWAP encryption This tutorial will explain how to encrypt your swap partition with a random key each time. [URL]http://www.mindhack.us/?p=192[/URL] As long as you use common sense in choosing a password, not writing it down and not giving it out, no one will be able to access your personal files stored in your /home partition. An encrypted SWAP partition will help prevent encryption keys and other passwords from being 'leaked' if someone obtained your netbook.

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I posted these in the Ubuntu subforum but I figured they would be useful here to.
If your not running a debian based Linux distro, you will need to modify the commands a bit.

/home encryption
This tutorial will explain how to setup an encrypted /home partition. It was done using a fresh install, but could be done with a previous install (would need some changes in how its done).
http://www.mindhack.us/?p=168

SWAP encryption
This tutorial will explain how to encrypt your swap partition with a random key each time.
http://www.mindhack.us/?p=192

As long as you use common sense in choosing a password, not writing it down and not giving it out, no one will be able to access your personal files stored in your /home partition. An encrypted SWAP partition will help prevent encryption keys and other passwords from being 'leaked' if someone obtained your netbook.

mindhack, May 6, 2009

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