Saturday, February 7, 2009

Ubuntu Jaunty now with option for encrypted Home directory

Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha 4 is out, and running through the installation brings up an interesting option: you can have an encrypted home directoy automatically unlocked when you log in. It's a huge feature for average users. While this isn't "full-disk encryption," nothing on your disk outside of your home directory is likely to contain anything but Ubuntu packages. Temporary files are deleted on reboot.

Congratulations, Jaunty, on a major step forward!


Your laptop data is not safe. So fix it. (infoworld.com)
Posted by Daniel Bo at 6:41 PM
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2 comments:

  1. Beware that /var/www, MySQL databases in the default installation, will be vulnerable.
    Also, although it is true that temporary files are deleted upon reboot, they can still be recovered if not encrypted.
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  2. worse yet, swap file? any memory written to disk containing sensitive information? i was a little upset that Jaunty doesn't offer full disk encryption :(
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