I have not fully looked into what happens in linux on the boot and root drives, they may in fact be read only drives, or have the ability to be setup as read only. (I am trusting that to be the case anyway.) So when working on a document, website, whatever that has temporary files that may contain sensitive data that the system never has the ability to write that cleartext to any temporary location with out it being encrypted.įull hard drive encryption gives me the sense of security that the OS can't accidentally write on the HD in clear text. The reason I think it needs to be an entire system encryption is to make sure that while I am using the drive everything written to the HD is in an encrypted form. If they stole it to get personal data from me and new it was encrypted they would have to spend hours and hours, in fact I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000 years to decrypt the data. My concern was I wanted to be able to encrypt the entire volume so if someone stole my laptop, they would see basically a blank hard drive. I currently use Truecrypt on my windows laptop, but wanted to install any linux distro on it as the primary OS. I know it's been a while since this post was updated but reading it and the thread in truecrypt forums was educational.
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