slackware encryptation

fffrrr · 11-01-2009, 09:15 AM

Hi everyone,
I wanna get beyond into the slack, in a operative system level. I dont know if slackware uses a particular type of encryptation or is the same for the most common distributions. My question is how slackware encrypts? (for logs, passwords, files,etc... but in a native OS level).
Any recomendation where can I dig?

bgeddy · 11-01-2009, 09:58 AM

Slackware itself doesn't handle any encryption but the components and tools it use do.
Check out LUKS, GPG ,MD5,AES and DES for a general introduction to encryption systems in Linux. Actually that's more like encryption systems in general but they're some of the technologies used in Linux and so in the Slackware distribution itself.