[–] GeorgeMichael 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
you could check out VeraCrypt, it's a fork and IIRC some trueCrypt developers are involved in this project as well
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[–] e0steven 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Um that's bull, it was fully vetted.Audit Results And I highly doubt you have anything to back it up.
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[–] MrMongoose 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You can use hardware encryption, where a device sits between the computer and the drive and does all of the encryption on the fly. The drive is unreadable without the encryption device/key. However, AFAIK, all those systems use hardware keys and not passwords.
[–] MrMongoose ago
Well, you can always apply whatever additional software encryption you want underneath it. It's just one more layer of security.
[–] ImSureImPerfect [S] ago
Hm. I'll have to read more about that. I'm fascinated by the idea.
If you install hardware encryption, the hardware key is...what...a physical, literal key of some sort? A piece of tech you slot in?
[–] MrMongoose 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yep. Usually a small dongle. There may be other variations, though. Search for the Addonics Saturn series - that's what I ended up with.
[–] Craftkorb 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
but very bad for the performance.
I call bullshit. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X201, which has a i5 520M as CPU and thus supports AES extension. A SSD is used as storage. Not the fastest one ever, still: 150MiB/s reading without encryption, ~125MiB/s with full disk encryption. I don't notice a thing whatever I do with it.
[–] VimTsar 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
very bad for the performance
Not really. Most modern CPUs have AES support, so performance hit using this cipher on HDDs isn't so bad. And SSDs aren't recommended for encrypted data anyway, since they keep ciphertext blocks which were rewritten and also need marking empty blocks for better performance, which both weakens the encryption.
[–] qiezidaifu 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Well then state why that's not the case, no need for chirping.
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[–] e0steven 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
First off cool your mom let's you use her super secure laptop lol. Secondly it's probably not the whole disk crypto. It's probably overzealous antivirus.
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