[MLUG] Ubuntu encrypted private folder

[Andre Courchesne - Consultant]

"Filenames and directory names will not be encrypted"

Now that's a show stopper for me...

Jeremy wrote:
> Andre Courchesne - Consultant wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>    I am looking at using the following to protect some sensitive data on my laptop:
>>
>> 	https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory
>>
>>    Anyone played with it and can tell me how safe it is tu use? By safe I do noe 
>> mean secure, I mean safe in the way "Is there a possibility I loose my data of 
>> something becomes corrupted?"
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>
>> Andre
>>   
> It "works" - except for one little thing that may be a showstopper for
> some: "Filenames and directory names will not be encrypted". If you look
> in your .Private dir, you will see the structure and names of encrypted
> files.
> 
> In terms of data safety, they detail a recovery procedure, and I see no
> more chance of it getting corrupt than anything else on the drive. Of
> course, you have the possibility of losing your passphrase... Keep
> backups :)
> 
> There are better ways of doing it, in terms of encryption, but not in
> terms of user-friendliness. If you want to do it yourself, check out
> pam-mount and cryptfs or some combo like that. Encfs also works well for
> userland, and truecrypt is user-friendly, but is not in repos due to
> license (afaik).
> 
> Jeremy
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