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[–] e0steven 0 points 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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[–] ghostfox1 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Truecrypt did it, but it's not being updated anymore.

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[–] GeorgeMichael 0 points 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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[–] Charley 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Veracrypt has been a great alternative.

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[–] e0steven 0 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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[–] ghostfox1 ago 

Thanks. I knew someone had said they would update it, but I lost track of it a long time ago, and haven't had time to look into it.

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[–] Persolus 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Aww, this makes me happy. I don't have a use for TrueCrypt anymore, but when I heard the bad news, I felt very bad for the creators and the community.

Glad to see it's being properly forked. Fuck yeah open source software!

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[–] MrMongoose 0 points 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.

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[–] Craftkorb ago 

Aaand there's the trust issue. Why should I trust that device that it does the job correctly? Without unintentional or maliciously introduced crypto bugs bogging security?

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[–] MrMongoose ago 

Well, you can always apply whatever additional software encryption you want underneath it. It's just one more layer of security.

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[–] ffs 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Because it's hopefully open source and audited.

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[–] 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?

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[–] MrMongoose 0 points 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.

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[–] e0steven 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

AFAIK hardly anyone uses these devices. If you need small portable enterprise encrypted USB check out Iron Key. I've been using encryption for years across all different health systems, never once saw something like that.

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[–] Ninbyo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's usually a card or device you plug in. Your phone's SIM card for example. A physical key might be used to prevent you from messing with the hardware in addition to it.

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[–] xyzzy 2 points 1 point (+3|-2) ago 

Full disk encryption is possible, but very bad for the performance.

Technically not everything is encrypted, the bootloader which asks for your passphrase and decrypts the filesystem is not.

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[–] brojobbro ago 

Full disk encryption is possible, but very bad for the performance.

No it's not. Not even a little. It takes longer for me to type in the password than it does to decrypt it. As for performance of my computer once its decrypted, I can't tell a difference.

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[–] Craftkorb 0 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.

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[–] VimTsar 0 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.

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[–] e0steven 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I don't think that is the case at all and I doubt you've ever actually used it.

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[–] qiezidaifu 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Well then state why that's not the case, no need for chirping.

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