[Noisebridge-discuss] Laptop security recommendations: Encryption and using a thumb drive as a key

[William Budington]

In my experience the best way to achieve this is to install Ubuntu with the
alternate install image.  This will give you full disk encryption options.
When prompted, have the partitioner map the /boot partition to your USB
drive.  That way you can carry your USB drive which contains your boot
record, and this will prevent tampering if you carry it with you.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Robert Chu <robertayoungchu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Best wishes Noisebridge,
>
> The hardware and OS: Dell 1525 + Ubuntu 10;10
>
> Could anybody recommend a good solution for encrypting my hard drive and
> requiring a password to operate?
>
> In addition, could I also have a recommendation on using setting up a USB
> thumb drive as a key, for my computer. In other words it will not operate
> without it? (True usb thumb drive key)
>
> Thanks.
> - RAYC
>
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