Author: WhiteHat, Location: ItalyPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject: Re: Best whole disk encryption setup ---- I use LUKS file system.
You can choose the encryption algorithm, the key modulus, and you can set more than one passphrase.
Now, thanks to FreeOTFE, you can have LUKS also on Windows machines.
Author: Fire Ant, Location: LondonPosted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:15 pm Post subject: ---- Depends what your requirements are. For example, I need centralised management and recovery for I use PGP WDE. But I also use TrueCrypt for file encryption but I haven't looked into TrueCrypt Whole Disk.
Matt_s
Author: r.feakes, Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:41 am Post subject: ---- Hi guys,
Thanks a lot for this info.
TrueCrypt looks very attractive with its plausible deniability.
Do each of you trust the solutions not to have backdoors?
Thanks again.
Author: Fire Ant, Location: LondonPosted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:07 pm Post subject: ---- Yes I do trust them both. The source code is available for TrueCrypt and I have worked with PGP intensively and can vouch for that.
Matt_s
Author: r.feakes, Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:37 pm Post subject: ---- and, matt_s, if I use truecrypt on my entire HDD (full disk):
(i) when is the key entered? bios? before OS startup? after OS startup?
(ii) is performance affected writing / reading? severely? on most pcs?
thanks so much.
Author: benzfire, Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 6:33 am Post subject: ---- i tried Truecrypt, yes it works but there is problem when i need to share my work files to my colleagues, you don't want to share your Truecrypt partition file, do you? i had another bad experience with truecrypt that i forgot my vault's pin and i had no way of open the vault till now. my company now uses [url=http://www.bloombase.com]Bloombase Keyparc[/ur] instead interesting it encrypts on the file level rather than full disk that i can send over the .kpp secured file thru emails to my friends and workmates.
Author: r.feakes, Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:22 am Post subject: ---- benzfire, thanks a lot for your case-study.