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authorFrancis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2014-09-11 00:26:50 (EDT)
committer Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>2014-09-11 00:26:50 (EDT)
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Documentation: add notes about performance penalty when using ecryptfs.
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</p>
<p>
- Set a strong user password (ideally above 40 characters, of lowercase/uppercase, numbers and symbols) and when the installer asks you to setup
- encryption (ecryptfs) for your home directory, select 'Yes'.
+ Set a strong user password (ideally above 40 characters, of lowercase/uppercase, numbers and symbols).
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ when the installer asks you to setup
+ encryption (ecryptfs) for your home directory, select 'Yes' if you want to: <b>LUKS is already secure and performs well. Having ecryptfs on top of it
+ will add noticeable performance penalty, for little security gain in most use cases. This is therefore optional, and not recommended.
+ Choose 'no'.</b>
</p>
<p>
@@ -184,6 +190,10 @@
</h1>
<p>
+ If you didn't encrypted your home directory, then you can safely ignore this section.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
Immediately after logging in, do that:<br/>
$ <b>sudo ecryptfs-unwrap-passphrase</b>
</p>