root encryption vs just /home encryption?

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 09:38:38 UTC 2008


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> I don't think swap and vulnerabilities that allow you to read memory
> (and the disk keys) if you steal the machine with power on (including
> suspend to memory) are relevant.

You're probably right about that, but they should be relevant.  If a machine 
containing my information is lost/stolen I do not care whether the company 
thinks their encryption on it was *probably* good enough, I should be notified 
the information is out of their control.

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