http://www.ashbaughonline.com/2006/06/03/encryption-truecrypt/ Powered By Technology Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:42:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.ashbaughonline.com/2006/06/03/encryption-truecrypt/#comment-4740 2 Blocks away » Portable encryption on Mac OS X! Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:43:40 +0000 http://www.ashbaughonline.com/2006/06/03/encryption-truecrypt/#comment-4740 [...] Ok, I just stumbled across an article about Truecrypt and thought it couldn’t encrypt full hard drives , went to their website and then read that it can. Thats is all good but its a windows software which doesn’t do me any good really. But I read some comments on that article regarding FileVault on Mac OS X and I would like to clarify a few things. YES it encrypts quite securely your home folder. It is also very transparent and does not take much CPU power. You wont notice it at least. However there is no quick way of creating volumes like Truecrypt does with FileVault. Volumes meaning they are encrypted files (heavily) that you can mount (attach to a drive letter like e:) or unmount as needed and in their unmounted state they are perfectly safe and portable since you are copying one file, However once they are mounted they are like hard drives so you can copy data to them and from them once they are mounted. This is very cool to transfer data on a USB stick for example. Only problem arises when you move data in an encrypted volume from a PC to a Mac… Don’t because the Mac wont be able to read the volume. [...] [...] Ok, I just stumbled across an article about Truecrypt and thought it couldn’t encrypt full hard drives , went to their website and then read that it can. Thats is all good but its a windows software which doesn’t do me any good really. But I read some comments on that article regarding FileVault on Mac OS X and I would like to clarify a few things. YES it encrypts quite securely your home folder. It is also very transparent and does not take much CPU power. You wont notice it at least. However there is no quick way of creating volumes like Truecrypt does with FileVault. Volumes meaning they are encrypted files (heavily) that you can mount (attach to a drive letter like e:) or unmount as needed and in their unmounted state they are perfectly safe and portable since you are copying one file, However once they are mounted they are like hard drives so you can copy data to them and from them once they are mounted. This is very cool to transfer data on a USB stick for example. Only problem arises when you move data in an encrypted volume from a PC to a Mac… Don’t because the Mac wont be able to read the volume. [...]

]]> http://www.ashbaughonline.com/2006/06/03/encryption-truecrypt/#comment-4738 Flosse Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:42:53 +0000 http://www.ashbaughonline.com/2006/06/03/encryption-truecrypt/#comment-4738 Uhm, where can you enable truecrypt do do the whole harddrive? Cuz I couldnt find that option when I last installed a windows machine and added encryption to it. Also in the comments of the article they talk about filevault which encrypts your entire home directory, but noone talks about the encrypted "disk" volumes you can make to store data... this info could have so much potential, actually I am going to write a post on my blog about this now. I will trackback to here! Uhm, where can you enable truecrypt do do the whole harddrive? Cuz I couldnt find that option when I last installed a windows machine and added encryption to it. Also in the comments of the article they talk about filevault which encrypts your entire home directory, but noone talks about the encrypted “disk” volumes you can make to store data… this info could have so much potential, actually I am going to write a post on my blog about this now. I will trackback to here!

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