[liberationtech] A tool for encrypted laptops

Michael Rogers michael at briarproject.org
Tue Mar 26 06:03:56 PDT 2013


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On 26/03/13 09:59, Julian Oliver wrote:
> For your Linux laptop why not just use an encrypted file-system and
> lid-switch? Close the lid and the machine hibernates. If you forget
> to close the lid then time it out to a screen lock. Can be done in
> a few lines of shell script with xtrlock and a
> /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state trigger.

Last time I tried it wasn't simple to get Linux to hibernate with an
encrypted swap partition. Are there now distros that support this out
of the box?

Cheers,
Michael

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