[Discuss] Full disk encryption

[Richard Pieri]

On Jan 4, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
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> Fedora allows you to do whole partition/volume encryption with the installer very easily.

Fedora does so using dm-crypt/LUKS which can encrypt arbitrary block devices.  Fedora provides the option to encrypt entire disks or individual partitions.  Ubuntu uses eCryptfs on top of the native file system to provide file-level encryption.  Two very different approaches.

--Rich P.