[clue-tech] disk encryption

[Jim Ockers]

Hi Dennis,

dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:
> Does anyone in the group use disk encryption?  If so, what kind?  I 
> see LUKS and Truecrypt are available for both Linux and Windows, which 
> would be a requirement since memory sticks or SD chips  would be used 
> on both.
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TrueCrypt is awesome, you should use it.  If I used it I would configure 
big container files rather than encrypting the whole disk because 
otherwise windows doesn't recognize the partition table or filesystem on 
the USB disk and wants to initialize the disk or format it or something 
when you plug it in.  If you leave the filesystem as VFAT then you can 
create a bigfile.bin which is the container, and then use TrueCrypt to 
mount that.

Also, the hidden volume feature is cool, you should play with that too 
and see how it works.  Yes the same volumes can be mounted under Windows 
and Linux.

Good luck,
Jim

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