Personal encryption solution
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A question. I'm getting more paranoid as of lately, although for good reasons. So I've decided it's time to encrypt personal information on my hard drives such as IRS returns. However, I know nothing of solutions that would allow me that. So obviously I need more information. Ideally I would prefer if there was a solution that would let me work with encrypted files transparently as if encryption wasn't there based on windows login or something. And ideally I would prefer if it also included extra stuff to aid in recovery of a corrupted encrypted archive so that if there is an error on disk I won't lose all of my stuff all at once. If that isn't possible what are my other options? Any bit of information would be useful along with personal recommendations. Oh, and Server 2008 compatibility would be a huge plus. I did a google search ang got a bunch of returns such as TrueCrypt, but it's just hard to grasp what I need/what I want and match it with PR blur. And I'm also interested in personal experiences. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
One of things I liked about DriveCrypt is that you can set up a real and a fake password. If you are forced to give a password, you give the fake password, which seemingly works and gives access to a bunch of dummy files you have set up in advance.
Best wishes, Hans
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Sebastian Schneider wrote:
Wear-leveling and journaled file access.
I am confused what you mean about this. Most flash drives today will wear level your data inside the drive itself so it makes no difference at all how you write the data to the drive.
John
John M. Drescher wrote:
Most flash drives today will wear level your data inside the drive itself
My point exactly. Data cannot securely be deleted or overwritten. If you know the wear leveling strategy, you might be able to find correlations between the overwritten data and its successor, giving you leverage in breaking the encryption altogether. Mainly a problem with containers, though, because they might need to be rewritten.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
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John M. Drescher wrote:
Most flash drives today will wear level your data inside the drive itself
My point exactly. Data cannot securely be deleted or overwritten. If you know the wear leveling strategy, you might be able to find correlations between the overwritten data and its successor, giving you leverage in breaking the encryption altogether. Mainly a problem with containers, though, because they might need to be rewritten.
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
Thank for the explanation. I never thought of that.
John