Linux hard disk encryption

Some readers know that I like to play with technology a bit.

Today, I finally successfully made hard disk encryption work on my linux laptop. This makes me pretty happy. I’ve been playing with various incarnations of this technology for a while–it is nice to have one that actually works the way it is supposed to work.

If you are also geeky and interested, here’s a good how-to for the current wave of “new technology” that integrates block-device encryption with the kernel:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemHowto3

jonathan