Classnotes | UNIX03 | RecentChanges | Preferences Showing revision 1 One of the great benefits of Linux being an international and non-corporate controlled operating system is that it can genuinely have an emphasis on user and data privacy that can be free from non-altruistic influences. While this may mean that components of this functionality may not be permissible in the country or region you live it, it does not mean that there exists this functionality elsewhere.
Under Linux you really have a wide variety of options available for strong encryption of data and transmissions. Everything from the Open Source Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG?, http://gnupg.org/) for general digital signing and encryption to the encrypted loopback device for specific filesystem and connection encryption.
We are going to start off this day with a very brief overview of some of the available options to a Linux system administrator with respect to strong encryption. We will also point out how to go about several types of encryption and where to go for more information.
