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

Robert Chu robertayoungchu at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 09:45:21 UTC 2011


That is an awesome idea, thanks for the advice.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:17 AM, William Budington <bill.budington at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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