Full Encryption Setup

[Snorkasaurus]

I think part of my problem is that I am bothered by the way LVM is designed... and yet it seems this is not going to work without LVM. The clearest description of how LVM is structured is something like this:

But even that doesn't seem to be well designed. First, I think the chart should be upside down, because in English (the language the article is written in) we read left to right and top to bottom - so the creation of the parts is done in the same order we read. And for my single-disk system it seems pretty excessive to

• Put in the physical disk
• Create a physical volume
• Create a volume group
• Create a logical volume (or in my case two logical volumes, one for root and one for swap)

To me this design strays from the KISS model and doesn't offer much in the way of benefit.

S.

[dedanna1029]

[*]What cyphers are not available to me and why not?
[*]What cyphers are available to me, which should I use, and why?
[*]What hashing systems are not available and why?
[*]What hashing systems are available, which should I use, and why?
[*]Should I be concerned about entropy generation and if so then how do I manage it?[/list]

Well... this sounds totally out of the box, but IF these proggies will accept it, I've found that using no cybers, hashes, or anything works. People who try to crack you will try every cyber and hash in the book, and get nowhere.

This is not the same, btw, as using things like passwords online or anything else. I'm talking with very tight security, the kind people feel compelled to try to crack - it challenges them.

However, not having used these, they probably wouldn't accept just nothing, their purpose is to have something.

LVM is the exact reason I don't use these things. I despise it.