Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:10:52 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best solution for encrypting a mountpoint? Message-ID: <20140901081052.6b4eda64@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <540341C8.2040003@tysdomain.com> References: <540341C8.2040003@tysdomain.com>
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Hi, On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:39:52 -0400 "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> wrote: > Hello all: > I would like to encrypt my /home directory. Is there a good solution > for handling this? There is already a partition, so I'd like to > unmount it and somehow set it up so that it will be encrypted. > Thanks, > as others have already suggested, I also use GELI for this purpose. To increase security a bit, you can store a key on a removable media. This would mean that you need this media to be able to access the data. The passphrase alone will not help. Erich
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