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Cryptome.org: Encrypting your Disks with Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 1, 1999

Getting a Notebook Computer seemed to be a good reason to
me to start encrypting my disks. I new there was disk encryption
code for Linux out there so I just had to patch it into the
kernel.

“Surfing the web for this Linux disk encryption code I found out
there is – unknown to the wide public – a LOT of code for this
purpose out there.”

“So I decided to write a small overview of the different
aproaches for disk encryption. For myself I decided to use ppdd but
I like ehd with kernel loopback encryption too, because it makes
using disk encription on a system used by multiple persons very
easy. Perhaps I should fiddle with ehd to work with ppdd.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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