[ltp] X60s/200s with SSD, encrypted disk

[Christoph Schmees]

Am 22.06.2015 um 22:37 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
> On 06/19/2015 10:55 PM, Christoph Schmees wrote:
>> Am 19.06.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Uwe Brauer:
>> > Hello
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>> > I have to upgrade my Kubuntu 10.04 to at least 14.04.
>> > I have alreay upgraded the hard disk of both laptops to a SSD which =
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>> > the most notable performance boost I experienced so far.=20
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>> > I would like to consider a 14.04 installation with an entirely encry=
pted
>> > disk. However I fear performance problems and would welcome any comm=
ents
>> > on that subject.
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>> if you own a ThinkPad already, why don't you use the built-in HD
>> encryption based on the TPM? You can set a password in the BIOS,
>> and the encryption is totally transparent to any OS you use. I
>> use it a lot on machines with dual or multi boot. The *whole
>> disk* is encrypted, and none of the OSes knows about it. I must
>> admit that I never tested w/ SSD so far, so I don't know if there
>> is any impact.
>>
>> hth, Christoph
>>
> problem seems to be: what to do if the machine breaks down, it is
> not trival to access the content
> on the disk then, even if you know the password
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> see for example
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> https://github.com/jethrogb/lenovo-password
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that's a different story. I mean the BIOS/TPM supported HD
encryption. This is completely transparent to any OS. I am not
talking about Linux, Windows or you name it. I for one have often
HDs encrypted this way exchanged between different machines: no
problem whatsoever - if you know the password. :-)

Christoph

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