Crypted Partitions?

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 04:12:07PM +0100, Roland Wolters wrote:
> there are several good howtos to mount crypted directorys or partitions, but 
> fedora has no "easy graphical way" like SuSE - you format the partition, and 
> at every boot you have a password question for the filesystem.
> Is it planed to add such a feature to fedora?
> And if, when, or if not, why not?
 
The proper way to do this with the 2.6 kernel in FC2 will be using
device-mapper and dm-crypt.  See

	http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/

There has been some discussion of in-place encryption conversion using
device-mapper tricks, so there is some chance that it could be 
done post-install with little hassle.

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky