On Wed, 2011-01-05, MFPA wrote: M>>> 9. How is using TB!'s OTFE better than simply M>>> locating your mail folder in an encrypted M>>> location, such as a TrueCrypt container?
>> The difference is that when you've mounted the >> encrypted location, third party programs (doesn't >> matter whether they're Santa's 'good' or 'bad' list) >> can access your message base. When you're using >> OTFE you're message base can only be accessed by TB and >> it's plug-ins. > Interesting - I'd not thought of that. Doesn't TB! need to place a > decrypted version of a file in a temp directory while actually working > with/editing it? Well, since I believe that OTFE stands for "On The Fly Encription" I imagine that whole files are not decrypted, but instead TB has a sort of builtin driver to access the mail database while only decrypting and encrypting a buffer at a time. -- Bill McQuillan <[email protected]> Using The Bat! 2.11 on Windows XP 5.1 build 2600-Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.23 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
