On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking for any decent links/how-to's for full disk encryption.
For truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/ Truecrypt also has an option for a secret hidden OS On Ubuntu you can do it at install if you use the alternate install CD. I used this a couple of times and it worked well. The encrypted home directory is what I use now. The one issue is that if you have a slight issue with your hard drive, and I mean slight, all the data is pretty much toast. It does not even have to be a bad disk, just a wrong bit flipped at the wrong time which happens more than you think on modern hard drives. If done right data recovery is not possible. On Windows I believe it is called bitlocker. > > I have a new 2TB drive connected via USB. Initially I want to set up that > entire drive with encrypted storage. I've downloaded/installed Truecrypt, > but I'm not sure if I have the process quite right. Do I first need to > setup a partition table and/or format the partitions? > > When I get more comfortable with the disk encryption, I'll likely wipe that > drive and use it in my desktop - possibly with full encryption there. > > A Google search finds old stuff, or other places that throw around a lot of > theory/crypto terms. I just want a step by step guide - I can look up the > specifics if I'd like. Oh, and I'd rather learn how to do this all from the > command line if possible... If it helps, I'm running kubuntu 10.04 at the > moment. > > Thanks in advance for any tips or links. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
