Hi,
Could anyone offer
any thoughts on what is the "best" encrypted virtual disk drive, which can run
on (at least) Windows XP Pro.
I used to use the
free version of PGPdisk (which you get with PGP version 6.0.2i), but that won't
work with Windows XP.
I also used to use
ScramDisk, but that also won't work with Windows XP.
I have been using
new version of PGPdisk (PGP version 8.0), but there are a number of problems
with that: being (1) the license ($50) seems to be enforced per-computer, not
per-user, so if you upgrade from one computer to another you either have to pay
again or plead your case with the PGP Corporation's support centre (which is
only open during office hours Monday to Friday, so don't try this during the
weekend), and (2) their web site had some problem last weekend such that it
wouldn't actually let me buy a new license even though I was prepared to pay for
it, and (3) the format of the container volume is totally incompatible with that
of PGP 6.0.2i. These problems combined mean that if your computer totally dies,
to get your data back (assuming the existence of a backup) you are reliant on a
single company to grant you a new license to get the software working, and
getting that licence is not necessarily easy.
I have also tried
the new version of DriveCrypt (the successor to ScramDisk) ... but I
worry about this because the company who make this (Securstar) no longer provide
source code.
I'd kind of like to
write my own, but doing the crypto is just the easy part - the hard part is
actually writing a virtual drive - I can't find any tutorials on that
part.
So I put it to this
list, what do folk here reccommend?
Jill
