Truecrypt is software that is used to encrypt or decrypt (virtual) partitions or entire drives.
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Is TrueCrypt truly safe?
I have been using TrueCrypt for a long time now. However, someone pointed me to a link that described the problems with the license.
IANAL and so it really didn't make much sense to me; however, I ...
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Speed of TrueCrypt whole disk encryption
I'm getting a new development laptop soon, and I'm thinking of using TrueCrypt to encrypt the whole disk.
What kind of performance drop can I expect? 10%? 30%? More? Also, assuming the workload has ...
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How can you use Windows Backup with a TrueCrypt encrypted backup destination?
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There are numerous backup solutions out there for Windows and they come in many different forms. From a file copy and/or syncing tool like SyncBackSE to whole hard drive backup utilities ...
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Encrypted HDD 100% safe?
I guess am a bit of a paranoid ha... anyway i encrypted my HDD with truecrypt using all printable ASCII characters and the password is 64 characters long. It is quite random, certainly no dictionary ...
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Replacing Dropbox with: Amazon S3 + SSL + GPG/TrueCrypt + Mounting on OSX ??
So, right now we're using Dropbox to share various data files around between approximately 10 Mac OS X systems.
However, we already have an S3 account and everyone on the lowest Dropbox plan of ...
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Is TrueCrypt robust against data corruption?
I would expect a TrueCrypt volume to be fragile when it suffers from data corruption. This could happen for example because the hard disk, CD or DVD start to deteriorate, or when an USB stick is ...
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How do I disable “you need to format this disk” message in Windows Vista/7?
I've started using TrueCrypt to encrypt a partition on an external USB hard drive. I've opted for using a raw partition as opposed to a file container.
But here's the annoyance. Whenever I connect ...
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How insecure is my short password really?
Using systems like TrueCrypt, when I have to define a new password I am often informed that using a short password is insecure and "very easy" to break by brute-force.
I always use passwords of 8 ...
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Does using TrueCrypt makes “file shredding” tools obsolete?
On Windows, I frequently use Eraser, to delete securely the files I remove.
I've been looking at TrueCrypt recently, and its whole disk encryption.
If I encrypt the whole disk, does that make using ...
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Sharing TrueCrypt partition between Windows and Ubuntu
I want to install dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu (Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.04 in this case) both sharing one partition for data with TrueCrypt. Is that possible? Would that work well?
My plan would ...
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Using TrueCrypt (software encryption) with an SSD
I use full drive encryption (FDE) w/ TrueCrypt on my laptop. I have a 2nd gen I7 with AES instruction support, so honestly I can't even notice a speed change on the system with it on.
My question, ...
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Is Truecrypt/Macfuse supported on Snow Leopard with 64-bit kernel?
TC runs, but I get this error when trying to mount a volume:
Failed to load
/Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext
- (libkern/kext) link error.
I've seen various posts talking ...
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Is TrueCrypt reliable enough for business-critical use? [closed]
I'd like to hear from TrueCrypt users who've had both good and (if any) bad experiences with it: Is it reliable enough for business-critical use? In my case, I expect to use file-based containers ...
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How to turn off the “you need to format the disk… do you want to format it?” message in Windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable "you need to format this disk" message in Windows Vista/7?
I have a USB drive. The entire device is encrypted with TrueCrypt. When I plug ...
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How to chain GRUB2 for Ubuntu 10.04 from Truecrypt & its bootloader (multi boot alongside Windows XP partition)?
I want Truecrypt to ask for password for Windows XP as usual but with the standard [ESC] option, on selecting that, i.e via Escape key, I want it to find the grub for the (unencrypted) Ubuntu install.
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Share Truecrypt container
is it possible to put a truecrypt container on a net share and access/mount it form multiple machines (windows) at the same time?
I fear that if both would write the file could be corrupted.
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Is TrueCrypt full disk encryption on windows 8 safe to use? [closed]
Since Windows 8 is currently still not 100% supported, I was wondering if full disk encryption is more or less safe to use in Windows 8.
I couldn't find any info on that on the internet, so I used a ...
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How much will full-disk encryption slow down a netbook?
I've been comfortable using TrueCrypt volumes to protect various sets of files on my computers. But I've gathered there can be more convenience and security to be had be encrypting the full hard disk, ...
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TrueCrypt, RIPEMD-160 vs SHA-512 vs Whirlpool
I am encrypting a volume with TrueCrypt. I have decided to use AES as the encryption algorithm, seeing as it is the government standard.
But which hash algorithm is better (more secure)? RIPEMD-160 ...
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Mac OS X full-disk encryption, with Time Machine
I want to encrypt at least my home partition on my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.5. I know both File Vault and TrueCrypt would do this, but I also want to keep on using Time Machine to back up my ...
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Truecrypt: Encrypt entire drive without having a CD/DVD drive
When I try to encrypt my laptop using TrueCrypt, it wants me to create a rescue disk and verify it. However, the laptop does not have a CD drive or a DVD drive, and I don't own something that can be ...
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Expand TrueCrypt volume on Mac OS
Are there any known solutions to manually or automatically expand a TrueCrypt volume on Mac OS?
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Recover data from a corrupt truecrypt encrypted partiton
If you have a drive that totatly encrypted using Truecrypt and somehow the boot sector / disk header is corrupted and you can no longer mount the truecrypt volume, is it somehow possible to recover ...
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Rescuing an encrypted hard drive
A friend of mine asked me to encrypt the hard drive on his netbook (running Windows Vista) so I used TrueCrypt's full-system encryption to do it. All is well.
Except now he forgot his Windows login ...
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TrueCrypt full disk encryption on the Intel 520 Series SSD
I am considering purchasing the Origin PC EON 11-S Pro laptop. It will be mounted to my wheelchair, so a solid-state drive (Intel 520 Series) will be used to eliminate any data loss due to low level ...
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TrueCrypt container in Google Drive
I have a TrueCrypt file container in the Google Drive folder. I add stuff into it, make sure TrueCrypt changed the timestamp of the container. Google Drive syncs with the server, but it seems it ...
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Volume Shadow Copy based backup that works with TrueCrypt?
I have enabled whole-drive encryption on my external drive to comply with my company's requirements about data security. I want to be able to make a backup of files on the drive, even while they're in ...
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Is there any way to force a Windows 7 computer to process autoruns.inf on a USB stick?
There is nothing nefarious about this question.
We have some temporary worker who will be doing work on some confidential information.
I would like to give them the data on a USB stick, set up as ...
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Using a decoy operating system, with another OS hidden by TrueCrypt?
TrueCrypt provides an option to use a hidden operating system. This works by having a decoy operating system residing on partition 1, and using partition 2 as (encrypted) data storage for the decoy ...
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Encrypting my laptop hard drive
I've considered encrypting my laptop hard drive for a while now, but the only thing holding m back is my Microsoft SQL Server 2008 installation. I use my laptop for development and also have some ...
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Can someone access a mounted TrueCrypt drive if they stole my laptop?
I'm using a TrueCrypt encrypted hard drive on my computer where I store all my work files. Usually, when I leave my laptop, I simply lock the Windows session but leave the TrueCrypt drive mounted.
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TrueCrypt: pro and contra
What are possible drawbacks of using TrueCrypt? Do I risk losing my data in case of some disk error?
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How do I make sure a file stays off my hard drive on OS X?
I need to keep a secure file on OS X (10.6). The file is stored on a Flash drive, in an encrypted volume using TrueCrypt.
The file itself is a CSV, to be opened using Excel. I need the file to stay ...
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Truecrypt - How to create self extracting archives?
Is there any way to create self extracting archives using truecrypt similar to PGP, so that a user without Truecrypt installed can open the archive on entering the right passphrase.
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Why the results of Truecrypt and cryptsetup (LUKS) benchmarking are so different?
I want to encrypt a part of my HDD. But before that I wanted to benchmark the different algorithm available wondering if I should choose aes-xts-256 or aes-xts-512.
Note: I don't have aes hardware ...
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TrueCrypt. auto-mount the secondary volume?
I have a system volume and a secondary volume. Both are encrypted. How I can make the secondary volume mount automatically (without asking password), when I boot?
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Is it possible to run TrueCrypt without administrative privileges?
I'm looking at FreeOTFE, I don't know if it's compatible with latest TrueCrypt. Upon starting, it immediately results in an error message:
FreeOTFEExplorer.exe has encountered a problem and needs to ...
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Bootable USB stick with Truecrypt
I want to boot the TrueCrypt rescue disk from a USB flash drive. I have Windows 7 64bit so I cannot use Grub4Dos to do this (it only works on 32bit system), and 99% of all documentations on how to ...
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How do I autorun applications after mounting a TrueCrypt container?
I would like my TrueCrypt virtual drive to act as a newly inserted USB drive or CD/DVD by executing commands in the partition's autorun.inf file.
I've read several suggestions online including ...
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Upgrade to Windows 8 on encrypted drive fails and corrupted my TrueCrypt bios password
I just bought Windows 8, which I downloaded to my PC. The PC has full drive encryption, and I selected "Keep nothing" type of install for Windows 8.
When the downloader finished and restarted the ...
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How does Truecrypt know it has the correct password?
I wasn't sure whether to ask this on stackoverflow or superuser.
In the truecrypt documentation, it says that a truecrypt container is indistinguishable from random data. My question is, how does ...
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Encrypted TrueCrypt volume in file with decoy content?
I've been reading about the encryption features of TrueCrypt, including the feature to have an encrypted volume inside a file with any name. For example, I can create an encrypted volume inside a file ...
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truecrypt container not syncing to google drive
I have a truecrypt container located in my Google drive. I mount the container, add a few files and then dismount it. However, the file won't sync as the timestamps remains the same. To prove that I'm ...
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Decrypt files encrypted with TrueCrypt
I have a usb pen memory crypted with TrueCrypt.
Is there a way to decrypt ( without TrueCrypt ) files encrypted with TrueCrypt in linux ?
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Incremental (delta) backup of a encrypted data
I have several files that I need to keep encrypted on my home hard disk.
I currently use a TrueCrypt file container, currently around 100MB in size. I need to backup this file daily, and I'm looking ...
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TrueCrypt: privacy of decrypted data
TrueCrypt claims to store decrypted data only in RAM. But sometimes RAM gets dumped to swap (swap partition or swap file). Is this a privacy issue?
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Truecrypt v. PGP v. Bitlocker for whole disk encryption?
This is a follow up on a previous thread from last year (What software should I use to encrypt my hard drive?): any more thoughts on whole disk encryption? I'm getting a new laptop and am willing to ...
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Alternative to TrueCrypt?
TrueCrypt is distributed on a non-free license, and is therefore not included in the Fedora repos.
What alternatives would you suggest?
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Criteria for low disk space warning on XP?
According to this article, it says the low disk space warning appears when there is less than 200MB of disk space. However, I find this not to be the case. Two test examples:
1) I create a 3GB ...
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What is wrong with the truecrypt license?
I was thinking about securing some data on a laptop running Ubuntu with something like truecrypt,
but I noticed that I could not apt-get it (even though it is "open source").
So I searched the web ...
