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dm-crypt?

Posted Oct 28, 2005 9:07 UTC (Fri) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289)
In reply to: dm-crypt? by liamh
Parent article: Coming soon: eCryptfs

this is completely different, with dm-crypt you create the filesystem over the encryption layer. So if you backup your files to a non-secure FS, you will lose encryption.
This one handles encryption over the filesystem, file by file, so this is much more flexible.

Raphaël

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and maybe not as secure

Posted Nov 3, 2005 19:59 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

Depending on the application it's possible, that even the cleartext filenames and sizes give away too much information.

For things like passwordmanager files, diaries and such it's obviously ok.