Ertugrul Soeylemez wrote:
>
> In Linux there are several ways in which you can encrypt your data. I
> have an encrypted hard-disk (via dm-crypt), encrypted email traffic (via
> GnuPG) and of course encrypted remote shell sessions (via OpenSSH). To
> keep it short, I encrypt everything, where encryption is appropriate.
When I was in the military I noticed that everything transmitted from my
Air Base was first encrypted. I mean everything from the dinning hall
menu to the laundry list. I asked some of our crypto guys why they
wasted time encrypting such worthless junk. Their answer was a
revelation: If you encrypt only sensitive information then the enemy
only has to work on the encrypted stuff, but if you encrypt everything
the enemy has to spend enormous amounts of them decrypting junk. It is
the needle in the haystack theory. If you have millions of billions of
bytes of funk it will be pretty hard to find that 16 digit credit card
number in the noise.

But then again you have to be pretty paranoid -- but for this group?
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