Re: encryption, partitioning, was: Workstation WG meeting recap 2018-Dec-03

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On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 12:25:30PM -0600, mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> But most of / is not sensitive data on Workstation. We are only
> concerned with encrypting possibly-sensitive data. That's /home,
> /tmp (tmpfs, no worries there), portions of /var, maybe bits of
> /etc, and swap. We don't necessarily need to encrypt the whole thing
> with a passphrase like our current LUKS setup. Giving up on /etc is
> probably reasonable as we don't need to have perfect security, just
> good enough security. But stuff like system journal in /var could be
> problematic.

One possible problem with this is "whole disk encryption" as a checkbox in
corporate BYOD security policies. 


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Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fedora Project Leader
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