On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:50 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:31:19AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > Laptops have becoming the standard machine for people, replacing the > > desktop. We need to consider defaulting FC6 with encrypted filesystem > > or at least homedirs out of the box. This should be a key feature of FC6. > > I don't think that encrypted filesystem is a good way. I think better > idea is support for encrypted devices (partitions). Yea. > It's solution > independent on filesystem and it's useful for swaps too. For more > details see cryptsetup-luks and dm-crypt. We have full support for LUKS on removable / hotpluggable devices via HAL these days, see http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=64 - This stuff did make FC5 and it's integrated with gnome-keyring manager / gnome-vfs etc. (btw, for FC6 and GNOME 2.16 I hope to have a very simple formatting / partitioning tool for drives which will include setting up LUKS partitions - and it won't do silly things like requiring the root password (in the default install; will be configurable) for at least removable and hotpluggable media. Of course I can't promise to have this done for FC6 as I presently do most of this in my spare time...) David
