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Anonymous #1
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Encrypted Partitions using Linux Live Live CD
#18466115 - 06/24/13 04:51 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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For quite some time now, I've been contemplating using a Linux Live CD and it was recommended to me that I use encrypted partitions. Now this certainly seems like a wise move as I've been using TrueCrypt for Windows for quite some time.
Does anyone have any experience using these can shine some light on them? A brief explanation and maybe even some tutorials would be awesome. I'm a little tight for time at the moment or I'd go about hunting them down myself.
I just wanted to know if anyone had experience using them. My one and only real concern with a Live CD is where do I store any interesting files. One possibility was sending myself emails but this seems a bit of a pain in the ass if I'm being totally honest.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Encrypted Partitions using Linux Live Live CD [Re: Anonymous #1]
#18469072 - 06/25/13 09:28 AM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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You can create a file on a usb key or the systems hard drive which gets mounted using the loopback device as an encrypted filesystem.
To make it quick and easy to mount, you can make a shell script with the mount command / arguments.
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dokunai
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Re: Encrypted Partitions using Linux Live Live CD [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
#18470347 - 06/25/13 03:21 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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Solutions like TrueCrypt are nice, and almost certainly represent a robust enough solution for your situation. I have a few clients that have to meet HIPAA guidelines, and I set up TrueCrypt for all of them.
Running an OS from a USB drive is a viable solution with certain benefits and detriments, but isn't the best for everybody and is not required to have a very high level of privacy. You can create persistent data partitions that live alongside the linux partition if you so desire. If you want to run an OS off of a hard disk, you can certainly do so without much worry. If you prefer a Windows OS, look into combining a Trusted Platform Module hardware solution with a BitLocker software solution. In such a case it would be a considerable effort involving tremendous resources, which would most likely fail, for law enforcement to retrieve your data. For Linux look into dm-crypt. Please use a real password, not what is easy to type. I've had to recover data from a number of systems that use encryption after employees left on bad terms, etc., and I've almost always been able to do so heuristically.
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