Re: Encrypt entire HDD and store key on USB pendrive?
From: Robert J. Brown (rj_at_elilabs.com)
Date: 10/17/04
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 02:52:30 -0400 To: LordSharatan <dundymir@freemail.hu>
LordSharatan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Im asking for you help about the following question:
>
> Is there a way to encrypt the ENTIRE harddisk and store the key on a
> Pendrive? It would be also very important:
>
> 1) To have real time encoding - to make sure I do not have to wait
> hours every time I log my computer on.
>
> 2) And I am looking for something that can me implemented into the
> booting procedures:
>
> For example while computer and Windows is booting, it asks me to
> insert pendrive with key on it into the USB port OR my computer will
> be absolutely useless.
>
> Im sure this possible but I have no clue which program can do this for
> me?
>
> ANY help would be appreciated!
>
> Thank a lot in advance!
You can use the Linux 2.6 series kernel with crypto-loop functionality
to encrypt the entire drive, partition tables and all. I boot from a
usb flash drive that contains my /boot partition, and enables the
encryption/decryption by reading a pass-phrase at boot time. Once the
system is booted, the usb flash-drive can be removed. If you need M$
functionality, you could always run vmware on top of linux. I do not
know hardly anything about M$ products, as I do not use them, so I do
not know if this can be done directly with M$ only, but I know linux can
do it, and vmware can do M$ under linux, so the underlying linux would
handle the crypto stuff transparently for the M$ stuff.
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