RE: Securing laptops

From: John (thum@despammed.com)
Date: 07/29/02 

Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:45:09
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
From: John <thum@despammed.com>

Hi

I personally recommend PGPDisk, it's free, for personal use, http://www.pgpi.com, If you are worried about back doors, you can also download the source code. Examine it, build it and use it.

I have successfully tested PGPFW658Win32.zip and pgpdiskhack.zip .

IMHO, source code for security software should always be available for peer review and to check for back doors.

Of course none of this does you any good if choose an easy to guess pass phrase.

John

At 02:18 PM 7/29/2002 +0900, you wrote:
>
>I recommend F-Secure FileCrypto for Desktops and Laptops,and F-Secure
>FileCrypto? for Pocket PC Enterprise Edition.
> There are http://www.f-secure.com/products/filecrypto/desktop.shtml &
> http://www.f-secure.com/wireless/pocketpc/pocketpc-fc.shtml.
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>Brian Brotschi <brian.brotschi@sygate.com> 2002/07/26 23:46:17
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>check out PointSec (http://www.pointsec.com/) for a commercial version .
>Their product does file level as well as boot sector level disk encryption.
>Freeware version of PGP is available at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html
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>Hi,
>
>I am looking for an encryption tool to secure our executives laptops (W2K
>mainly). I have found DriveCrypt and BestCrypt so far. Any other
>suggestions? Possibly any OpenSource Tool?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Claudia
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