My laptop isn’t under my supervision most of the time. And I’d hate it if someone were to steal my SSD, or whole laptop even, when I’m not around. Is there a way to encrypt everything, but still keep the device in sleep, and unclock it without much delay. It’s a very slow laptop. So decryption on login isn’t viable, takes too long. While booting up also takes forever, so it needs to be in a “safe” state when simply logged out. Maybe a way that’s decrypt-on-demand?

I’m on Arch with KDE.

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    3 months ago

    Looks like they use eCryptFS. Never heard of it before so thats neat. I can see using it on systems where you can’t reinstall the system with Dm-crypt but it most cases I suspect Dm-crypt is a better alternative.

    Idk if its faster or slower than Dm-crypt.