Thread: N900 Security
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#19
Does maemo 5 support encrypted partitions using LUKS? I would like to have an AES encrypted partition for my home directory. This way if I loose the device (assuming the session is locked) the finder wont have access to my personal data on the device*. Has someone tried this? I'm wondering how the performance is.


*I assume the finder will reboot the device when trying to use/unlock it. I know that the encryption keys are in RAM when the partitions are mounted.. but I'm not paranoid enough to assume that the finder is sophisticated enough to somehow access them (i.e. gaining root access without rebooting or reading out the RAM via some kind of hardware adapter).