When installing SuSE, one can check a checkbox to encrypt the entire hard drive during the installation process. Anaconda should provide such a feature too. Many businesses start requiring their laptop drives to be encrypted in case they get stolen or lost.
This is dependent on the crypto target being added for device-mapper in the kernel...
Can a sufficiently empowered user mark this bug as a duplicate of 124789, "[PATCH] Add encrypted root filesystem support to mkinitrd"?
Not completely a duplicate, but that one has a bit more dialog in it *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 124789 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.