Encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge.
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Multi Encrypted Operating Systems with TrueCrypt
My laptop has a 250GB hard drive, and I currently use it to do a lot. I have Windows 7, Ubuntu 11.10, and BackTrack 5 on it, but I'd like to switch it up and add more security.
What I aim to do is ...
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TrueCrypt system encrypted drive fails to load Windows
I have full system encryption on my Win 7 Pro/64 hdd. I boot the machine and enter the TrueCrypt password, and Windows starts to load but fails with the error message "The boot selection failed ...
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Speed constraints of encrypted USB drives - Where are the bottlenecks?
I would like to keep my 1.5TB USB 2.0 external drive that I use for backups encrypted. I'm using TrueCrypt and have created a fully encrypted volume. This took 18 hours.
My question is:
Does ...
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How can I encrypt my whole personal user folder on Windows?
I share my computer with other people who also have administrative rights on this PV. To avoid giving them access to my personal data, like recent history, Dropbox content, and so on, I'd like to ...
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Windows EFS encryption
I'm using Bitlocker for a full disk encryption solution. However, I'd like to avoid having to shut down my computer to leave it in a secure state. If I enable EFS encryption on the folders which I ...
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Turning Computer into Router,Network Address Translation encryption.?
I have windows seven and am using connectify. but when i try to connect to the interner through my ethernet court in my dorm room the comp0uter doesnt recognize the ethernet cord. I belive that the ...
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Photoshop with Bitlocker
I found this entry (Photoshop's activation software overwrites fixed drive adresses) in the TrueCrypt documentation that scares me quite a bit. How does Bitlocker handle this issue? Similarly, how ...
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Multi-Truecrypt, One unencrypted
My goal is to create a multi-boot system in which I have an unencrypted Windows XP\7 for guests and and an encrypted Windows 7 for me with WUBI installed on this partition if possible. Truecrypt ...
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Interrupted encryption using Windows 7 BitLocker
Can anyone help me please?
While I was encrypting my hard drive with Windows 7's BitLocker, I accidentally pressed the "Cancel" button, and now my hard drive won't accept my password.
Is there any ...
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How to customize Seahorse plugin behavior in Nautilus?
I use Fedora 14. The seahorse-plugins package adds a nifty context menu option in Nautilus that allows you to encrypt/decrypt files easily with your GPG key. But is it possible to customize its ...
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Trigger Recoverable BitLocker Lockout
My team is about to provide our traveling colleagues with new Windows 8 laptops. Part of our security solution depends on the use of BitLocker. Every laptop will have two partitions configured like ...
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Can I run a private Bittorrent Sync central server that replicates data but does not decrypt it?
Bittorrent just announced Bittorrent Sync, which as I understand it is a pure P2P sync solution without a central server that stores your data: Instead, all nodes in the network replicate amongst ...
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How can I access volumes encrypted with LUKS/dm-crypt from Windows?
The answer to this question used to be FreeOTFE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE); sadly, the project has not been updated for three years and its website (http://www.freeotfe.org) is no longer ...
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Open an .EPM file on a Mac
I have an a CD from work encrypted with Check Point End Point encryption software for windows. If I was trying to open this on a Windows computer I would just open the included .exe file on the CD and ...
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How can I create an encrypted file on OSX for opening on Win7 w/out 3rd party software?
I do love PGP/GPG, but I have users who don't want to, or can't, install 3rd party binaries. Is there a way on OSX to create a (strongly) encrypted file on OSX which can be opened by Windows 7?
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What happens with my encrypted files on Synology when it is stolen?
I have a Synology NAS. It has the possibility to encrypt folders. I have enabled it via the web interface. But one of the reasons for actually encrypting these files is that they should be protected ...
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Where do the log files of TrueCrypt stored?
I want to develop a software probe which communicates with the log files of the open source truecrypt tool.
Could anyone help me out in figuring where these logfiles are stored.
Thank you a lot in ...
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Encrypting or protecting my ID for all applications
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I work in an environment where I have to use my LDAP ID+pass for running various applications as admin, sending emails, or for letting the application access the internet and so on..
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If I send an encrypted message using Apple Mail, are the attachments also encrypted?
A while ago, I'd tested this by sending myself an email with a file attached, then opening it in a web-based client. What I saw was a blank message with a single smime.p7m attachment. I assumed this ...
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Why “not a valid LUKS device”?
During installing Debian Squeeze I created partitions on a VPS (/dev/vda):
vda1 = /boot
vda2 = encrypted LVM (not using a standard way of Debian installer, but with the help of cryptsetup switching ...
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Encrypt Excel file on Windows for use on Mac
I have an Excel file open using Excel 2007 on a Vista PC.
I wish to encrypt this file, and send it to someone to open on a Mac running Excel 11.6.6 (Office 2004). Is this easily achievable?
I ...
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Cannot open an encrypted file on OS X
I cannot decrypt files on OS X (10.6.8 and 10.8.2) which I have encrypted on Ubuntu (10.04) using ccrypt. As a similar problem, I have a password file created with KeePassX. I just cannot open it on ...
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Do there exist any published security audits of FreeOTFE?
I see that http://www.freeotfe.org offers FOSS encryption software for Windows. This software also has a Wikipedia article devoted to it.
However, it appears to have received less scrutiny than its ...
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Can't find second partition on encrypted drive with two partitions
I have a drive with two partitions, a system partition (Windows 7) and a partition just for data. Both are encrypted with the same password.
I didn't had any problems, but yesterday my laptop gets ...
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Truecrypt - Mount with command line options through GUI
I'm trying to mount a Truecrypt volume with the "Preserve modification timestamp" setting disabled. However, I only want the setting disabled for just this volumen, not all volumes. The only way I've ...
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Trouble shooting true crypt
Every time I try full system encryption with truecrypt (AES) I'm getting a 'pretest failed' message after my test reboot. The thing is, nothing actually fails, I get a password prompt from the boot ...
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Is there any way to block all unencrypted connections?
I'm in the United States and I really don't think what I do is any of my ISP's business. No, I'm not doing anything illegal, I would just rather they not be watching everything.
I tried TOR a few ...
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If a passphrase for a luks container is discovered, can that reveal another passphrase?
I've been looking for an answer for this scenario -
say I've got a volume encrypted with a long passphrase. something like a skeleton key passphrase thats used for a number of volumes. This volume ...
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How can I make an encrypted email message into a .p7m file?
This is a bit complicated, so I'll explain what I'm really trying to do here:
I have a Debian server, and I want to automatically email myself certain logs every week. I'm going to use cron and a bash ...
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Setup new Mac from encrypted timemachine
I was setting up my new Mac from encrypted timemachine, to my surprise, Lion start importing the files from timemachine without asking for the encrypted key. I couldn't find any documentation about ...
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Use of multiple keyfiles for TrueCrypt
As mentioned in documentation, TrueCrypt would use first 1024 kilobytes of any large file to create SHA-512 Hash which will be combined with password to get the final hash.
E.g. ...
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aescrypt doesn't function with pv in pipeline
I am writing a bash script that pipes a file through pipe viewer to watch encryption progress. However, whenever I use aescrypt in the pipeline with pv, I get an error about not matching passwords. If ...
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Why do I have some “encrypted” files on my Win7 Pro drive
For reasons I can't fathom I appear to have a lot of files on my drive that are considered as encrypted (I just tried to xcopy /s /c /y /d a_dropbox_folder\*.* \\somewhere_on_my_nas_drive\ and got ...
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using zfone in practice - how do i force gtalk to use SIP?
Recently i got a need for a fully encrypted and safe communications. Believe it or not - there is no simple solution.
Criteria for needed software include:
1. Encrypted 1 to 1 chats (text).
2. ...
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Windows live messenger video encryption
I was searching for an alternative for Skype video chatting and I found a super user question which recommends windows live messenger. I used it couple of times, and then I was worried about the ...
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How to install SafeGuard Easy on a Macbook running Windows 7
When I install SafeGuard Easy 5.6 on a Macbook running Windows the Installer stops at some point and rolls back. I am aware, that this is not offically supported ...
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Automatically Encrypt And Forward An E-mail
I'm looking for some mechanism to receive e-mail, automatically encrypt it and forward to another e-mail address.
Essentially, I want to this new e-mail address to be an 'off-site backup' of all my ...
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Windows 7 created a Encrypting File System key for me. How can I tell if it's in use?
I never knowingly created an encrypted file system, or encrypted files.
This similar question proposes that it might have been Office 2010, which is a possibility. (Though it's irritating that some ...
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Generate a PGP key with DSA key size of 1024 bits and El Gamal key size of 2048 bits using Mac GPG 2.0
Can somebody please tell me how to generate a PGP key with Mac GPG 2.0 that uses a DSA key for signing with a length of 1024 bits, and an El Gamal key for encryption with a length of 2048 bits ? I've ...
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How can I recover files that ecryptfs seems to have lost?
I'm having a really strange problem with ecryptfs. I run openSUSE 12.3 with Gnome 3.8 and ecryptfs (as well as LUKS full-disk encryption over an LVM that contains / and /swap). I often leave my ...
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How to automatically mount 3 TrueCrypt volumes on OSX after login
As the title say I would like to automatically mount 3 volumes after logging into OSX. I saved my 3 volumes to the favorite volumes.
I tried the –-auto-mount=favorites parameter from here: ...
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Encrypting remote laptops with Truecrypt
My current process of encrypting user laptops is to set the password for myself, create a rescue disk, test login and have user set the password to their liking. I do this while physically with the ...
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Win8 Credential Manager encryption?
Short question, the level of security in the credential manager in Win8?
I know that in Win7 some passwords were stored in plain view and could easily be extracted, does this apply to Win8 aswell? Or ...
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Gnome Disk Utility: Cannot change passphrase
Specifications: Gnome Disk Utility v.3.0.2 running on 12.04 LTS on a generic AMD64 box used to partition a HDD interfaced via SATA and create the file-system. Options defined were the following: No ...
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Automount encrypted home directory
When I made a fresh install I decided to use encrypted home directory. After sometime/updates (can't remember what was the cause) directory won't mount anymore. I want to automate this process once ...
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MPPE-Send and Receive key derivation from MS-CHAPv2
I am trying to get the MS-MPPE-Send-key and MS-MPPE-Recv-key from the MS-CHAPv2 challenge material. I am able to follow the RFCs 2548 3078 and 3079 to the step of getting the GetNewKeyFromSHA() it is ...
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How to remove password of a password-protected PRC?
I know the password, I just want to remove it. Mobidedrm couldn't do this (it can remove DRM from files that are not password-protected only though). any idea?
Sample file on DropBox
passwd of ...
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Running iptables on Planetlab?
I am trying to run tcpcrypt (www.tcpcrypt.org) on PlanetLab. The tcpcrypt uses iptables to install firewall rules. But when I run the launch script or run the iptables command I receive the following ...
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Can't access hard drive from my broken laptop
My laptop just broke, it just powers up but doesn't do the bios post.
I removed my hard drive from it, which is in perfect health and with data on it, and, with a password set from my Acer laptop ...
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Truecrypt 7.1a says: Can not shrink the filesystsem (to make room for volume header)?
I tried to encrypt my non-system hard drive filled with data (1TB, 37gb free) using truecrypt 7.1a
After start it says: "Can not shrink the filesystsem (need to shrink fs to make room for volume ...
