Truecrypt/Veracrypt are about your only options. Kurt
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Ben's note I got a call from my daughter looking for a free encryption > program for a friend. Before I was able to reply she had already found one. > My daughters is already encrypted. > > Now to my question: > > What WOULD be a good free (and it must be free) disk encryption software to > use? > > Background: > > University/College students enrolled in at least the medical fields are > being required to encrypt their personal machines and any additional drives > they store data to. I would prefer to not give bad advice, and since the > minds that are in this group and younger and more flexible than mine, I am > hoping to get some GOOD advice to pass on as needed. > > Thank you in advance > > Jon > >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:42:04 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] SSD scrub/sanitize/wipe >> To: [email protected] >> >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I recently had to return a personal laptop for replacement and could not >> > find a method for securely erasing its SSD. >> >> Define "secure". >> >> Personally, for most data, I'd be content with executing a TRIM >> command over the entire disk. >> >> > I came upon the idea of encrypting the entire drive as one way of >> > virtually >> > guaranteeing that data could not be recovered. >> >> This is the preferred approach in general. By encrypting all your >> data up-front, before it's ever written to disk, all you need to do is >> destroy the key, and now the blocks on disk cannot be recovered. (Or, >> more precisely, they're as safe as the encryption implementation makes >> them.) >> >> However, this is only full-proof if you do it in advance. Doing it >> after the fact is the same as doing any other kind of overwrite -- it >> may leave data behind in relocated sectors, protected areas, or other >> magic locations. >> >> > What are others doing in this regard? >> >> DoD still says disks with classified information must by physically >> destroyed. >> >> > PS Steve Gibson is good for something after all! >> > https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm >> >> The fact that Gibson says TrueCrypt is still trustworthy makes me >> trust it less. >> >> -- Ben >> >>
