On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:50:15 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:
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>> In article <6822q3tpfg3bl3i4k5durqhf68s5ot4p6t@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Doctor Who <doctor_who@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > Hope this helps someone.
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>> > Doctor Who
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>> > Security and Encryption Faq 22.6.8
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>> > by Doctor Who
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>> You mentioned something about a whole disk truecrypt release in
>> a previous faq. Any news on this?
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>Doc is confused. There is no whole disk version of Truecrypt planned.
>There is, however, a February 5th scheduled release of Truecrypt
>version 5 which includes system partition encryption with pre-boot
>authentication.
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>The im****tant thing to remember here is that there *is* a difference
>between whole disk and system partition encryption. Whole disk implies
>and entire physical disk is encrypted as a single "volume" and the
>entire file system including partition information is contained
>therein. Access to any and all parts of the drive is prohibited without
>the password/key/etc.
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>The new Truecrypt release add the ability to encrypt certain types of
>partitions that couldn't previously be encrypted, but those partitions
>are still unique and identifiable as partitions even without being
>mounted. So in reality, this won't change much of anything regarding
>running virtual environments from Truecrypt containers. You'll still
>want to use the virtual environment to isolate sensitive activity from
>activity that's not, or even activity you want others to see. And
>you'll still need to store those virtual machine images on encrypted
>partitions or in encrypted volumes dedicated to that purpose.
I see from the TrueCrypt website that it is scheduled for release on
Monday. Exciting times.
Quote:
TrueCrypt 5.0
Release scheduled for: February 4, 2008
* Windows system partition encryption with pre-boot authentication
* Mac OS X version
* GUI for Linux versions of TrueCrypt
* Parallelized and pipelined read/write
and more.
Unquote
"and more" Sounds intriguing. Could that be a hidden bootable
container,
I wonder. We shall have to wait and see. It is certainly looking like a
free
and open source equivalent to DCPP.
Doctor Who
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