[sf-lug] Full Disk Encryption options?

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 00:11:31 PDT 2008


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Tom Haddon <tom at greenleaftech.net> wrote:
>  Interesting, hadn't thought of that as a possibility before. On the
>  other hand, you could just set your BIOS to have a boot option password
>  so that someone can't boot from a different device than the one intended
>  without a password.

:-)  BIOS settings are rendered ineffective if you pull the CMOS
battery for a minute or so.  Thus, it appears the only way to thwart
physical access is with full disk encryption.  I'm still taking
suggestions for alternatives other than dm-crypt...
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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