Hello Mica, On Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 2:41:35 PM Mica [MM] wrote:
MM> I hopped that's possible that you boot "gradually", firstly in DOS MM> mode, then you decrypt containers, and then boot in Windows. This MM> way you would be able to encrypt entire OS partition as well. This would actually require a DOS based OS, which WinNT, Win2k and WinXP aren't. Additionally you'd need to write a boot loader which can replace current (DOS) kernel by Windows kernel, as from DOS-stage you're not really executing a "boot process" as BIOS does. Additionally this replacement has to performed in a way that keeps nevertheless crucial parts of the DOS-kernel loaded, for PGPDisk-drivers not being unloaded. All in all this would be a quite complex thing and I don't think somebody already managed this for Windows. MM> But there is still an other advantage of PGP over Scramdisk (which can MM> be used without any installation, and from a floppy), and this is, if I MM> understood well, that your files in a mounted container are all in a MM> non-readable form, except the ones you have active/open in the given MM> moment, when you work with them. Well ... define "have open". Having a file open requires to open it first. This "open" would fail if the file(s) were non-readable. So it/they must be readable, else you wouldn't be able to open it yourself. -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v3.0.2.1 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2) So, George, do you really believe Monotheism is a gift from the gods? ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
