On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 10:17 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
Adalbert Prokop wrote:
> Jeff Maxwell wrote on Saturday 15 November 2008:
>
>> Which encryption tool/application would be preferred - PGP or other?
>
> If you could be more specific, WHAT you want to encrypt?
2 items - emails of
a sensitive nature and files that may contain
financial or other personal information.
Here some
> suggestions.
>
> - Single files, E-Mails -> GPG (you might refer to it as PGP)
> - Directories -> fuse + encfs
> - Partitions, file systems -> cryptsetup (possibly with luks)
Thanks for
the suggestions.
I would recommend cryptsetup+luks. It's convenient, and efficient. You
can use a loopback device or any drive you have lying around. Make sure
you allocate enough space, though, or you have to reencrypt a new
partition and move everything over.
Matt Flaschen
Would not GPG or PGP work for mail and file encryption?