Re: Whole Hard Disk Encryption?

From: _____ (notme_at_nospam.net)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:15:10 +0100

"Peter L" <peterlyttle@OOOPStotal-insanity.com> wrote in
message news:a2sic.34843$h44.4990534@stones.force9.net...
> Hi, please can anyone tell me can you encrypt a whole hard
drive, ive only
> seen programs that do 2gig... it would need to be 128bit
or better? Also is
> there a way to have a password entered on boot, which
allows access to all
> the drives (boot and document storage drives) and if it
isnt entered then
> they system will not boot??
>
> PeterL
>
>

All freeware:

1 -- Compusec
http://www.ce-infosys.com.sg/CeiNews_FreeCompuSec.asp
However, this is not open source, so there is no peer
review.
Encrypts your boot partition and any others (aes128)

2 -- Crosscrypt
http://www.scherrer.cc/crypt/
Open source, GNU/GPL.
Encryption with aes256 , aes192, aes128, twofish.
This will not encrypt your boot partition.

You can encrypt your partitions with Compusec and build
inside them Crosscrypt drives (expect some performance drop,
use a a lot of RAM and a fast CPU).

3 -- Ram Drives
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q257/4/05.ASP&NoWebContent=1&NoWebContent=1
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=ramdrive%20freeware%20"windows%20xp"&hl=en&as_qt=w&as_eqt=w&as_eq=&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&lr=&num=100&btnG=Google+Search
Move history/cookies/temp to a ram drive.

4 -- Enable swap file cleaning when you shutdown Windows .

or better yet

4 -- Disable swap file (be ready to have lots of RAM or
there will be significant performance drops and BSODs)

5 -- Read, read, read. Read again.

gurkatoon

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Encrypted partition solution for Windows OSes?
    ... is to encrypt the file, ... For Windows you have several ... choices, PGP, and GnuPG, as well as Guardbot for web based file transfers. ... files as drives, and aren't terribly interesting. ...
    (Focus-Microsoft)
  • Encrypted vs file permissions etc.
    ... Inadvertantly clicked Encrypt, ... to trash the C drive drastically and after two days, figured reinstalling ... I got file or security permission errors when I ... -- I can NOT copy them to any DIFFERENT drives. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Encrypted vs file permissions etc.
    ... Inadvertantly clicked Encrypt, ... to trash the C drive drastically and after two days, figured reinstalling ... I got file or security permission errors when I ... -- I can NOT copy them to any DIFFERENT drives. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)
  • Re: I really do like OS X but . . .
    ... This is almost as silly as saying "XP can only encrypt data if it's on an NTFS drive". ... You can encrypt data on other local drives. ... or possibly an external drive--in which case you can use an encrypted disk image. ...
    (comp.sys.mac.advocacy)
  • Re: Encrypted files got me crazy!!!!!!!
    ... ALL my drives are with ... NTFS format and the way I move the encrypted files is just ... folders I certified if the files where there...They ... >What I did is encrypt some important folders including My ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin)