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Alright as someone who actually uses whole disk encryption and has for years for HIPAA, here is my experience.
I've used TrueCrypt for a long long time, it's been vetted and found to be essentially unbreakable if you use a strong pass phrase. It will do exactly as you envision, it prompts you every time you boot and the disk itself will not work without that key. Next up we have, on newer machines BitLocker. We have, again, whole disk encryption and this time the key is actually kept for us. If the drive is removed it won't be mountable. You can read much more of how BitLocker works by googling it. Finally there is speed, ok there is a speed cost. However even on a very low spec laptop is was virtually unnoticeable. So in short, rock on your encryption.
As always please please please please make sure you keep your keys safe, both from people stealing them and just from loss. This encryption means your data is basically totally lost without that key. TrueCrypt will make you, or at least prompt you, to make a recovery disk. BitLocker will print you a copy of your key. Keep them safe.
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[–] e0steven ago
Alright as someone who actually uses whole disk encryption and has for years for HIPAA, here is my experience.
I've used TrueCrypt for a long long time, it's been vetted and found to be essentially unbreakable if you use a strong pass phrase. It will do exactly as you envision, it prompts you every time you boot and the disk itself will not work without that key. Next up we have, on newer machines BitLocker. We have, again, whole disk encryption and this time the key is actually kept for us. If the drive is removed it won't be mountable. You can read much more of how BitLocker works by googling it. Finally there is speed, ok there is a speed cost. However even on a very low spec laptop is was virtually unnoticeable. So in short, rock on your encryption.
As always please please please please make sure you keep your keys safe, both from people stealing them and just from loss. This encryption means your data is basically totally lost without that key. TrueCrypt will make you, or at least prompt you, to make a recovery disk. BitLocker will print you a copy of your key. Keep them safe.