Earl wrote: > imagine that Linux, even with XWINDOW, is still faster than WIN XP. My old Thinkpad is a Pentium 200 MMX / 90 MB RAM, and it runs Mandrake 8.2 perfectly (of course, even if KDE / Gnome are installed, I prefer use Fluxbox or WindowMaker) with swap encryption and an encrypted container in my /home. I'm not sure that XP Professional can run with its crypto EFS and the Luna GUI on a such laptop ;-) > Any comments on VMWARE, especially parallel port connections to > Logitech scanner? This is off-topic on this list, but see the Mandrake hardware compatibility list. And VMware is not the Paradise. > If I decide to make both laptops multi-boot, I am thinking of 1 WIN > partition, 1 Mandrake encrypted partition, 1 Linux SWAP partition. I > think it would be better for me to have things like /home, /var, /tmp, > etc. as subdirectories and not partitions. Read the docs to understand the Linux FS style (hierarchical FS). > One important question is "plausible deniability". pplf, does > Mandrake 9.0 allow putting certain data on still another partition > with a different password without this being apparent? "plausible deniability" is not possible because /etc/fstab "knows" that some volumes are encrypted. > words, if put under pressure, can one divulge one passphrase to open > up a part of the OS without showing that there is still another > encrypted partition? BTW, cryptography is not the 100% perfectly final solution. It is a fairly good protection, in some cases, but nothing more. If someone can access your laptop during 10 minutes, he can boot on a floopy and put a rootkit with a keylogger and your encryption is dead... > Do all encrypted partitions have known headers? Good question. I don't know. -- pplf - French OpenPGP page "OpenPGP en francais" http://www.openpgp.fr.st pplf@wanadoo.fr "Microsoft solutions aren't solutions. They are problems" C.Casteyde - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
