Protecting Data with Encrypted Linux Partitions
Linux Planet has an excellent tutorial demonstrating how to encrypt data in Linux. The tutorial requires you to install the package cryptsetup.
Today let us focus on the issue of protecting sensitive data on hard drives with encrypted file systems. This is for your mobile users and anyone who needs extra data security on workstations and servers. We’re going to use cryptsetup-luks because it is easy and it is strong. We will create an encrypted partition that requires a passphrase only at mount time. Then you can use it just like any other partition.
Ubuntu users can install crypt setup with:
sudo apt-get install cryptsetup
Protecting Data with Encrypted Linux Partitions – [Linux Planet]
