Re: Truecrypt

[Roscoe <eocsor () gmail com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Douglas Duckworth
<stlpcsecurity () gmail com> wrote:
> I've been using Truecrypt on my personal laptop for two moths.  The entire
> drive and boot sector are encrypted and I've noticed insignificant
> performance decreases.

FWIW If you value performance you could only encrypt the sections of
the system that require confidentiality.

Speaking from a GNU/Linux perspective, there's not much worthwhile to
be gained from having /usr, /bin, etc...Encrypted.
Rather, one could opt to encrypt just swap, /tmp, /home and either all
of or sections of /var [like /var/tmp].

-- Roscoe