[ILUG] Hard Disk Protection in Live CD Boot Ups

[Josh Glover]

2009/1/14 Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>:

> As a matter of interest, what do you recommend for encryption?

GPG:

http://gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html

A quick guide to getting started:

http://www.tlug.jp/ML/0209/msg00000.html

> [I encrypt financial information with "vim -x"
> but I have never looked into the safety of this.]

That is a new one to me. I don't know what algorithm vim uses, but I'd
recommend GPG instead, as it implements well-understood crypto
algorithms that have passed plenty of cryptanalysis.

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Cheers,
Josh