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Advice on approaches to disk encryption in Ubuntu?

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Mar 15, 20262985 views
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I'm considering encrypting the contents of my laptop, which runs Ubuntu 10.04 and has an ext4 + swap, and I'm wondering what the best options are here. I'm aware of: TrueCrypt: either block-level encryption or virtual device within a file ecryptfs: FS-level encryption dm-crypt: block-level encrypti…

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I use encrypted LVM as well -- the Ubuntu server .iso supports this super-easily during installation, so I install from the server distro and run (or on older systems) once it's finished to install the desktop from there. I don't really notice a per…

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