nospamatall wrote:

> Casper wrote:
> >> No, it's not. With a two partition setup and both encrypted
> >> you can still see partition information booting from a LiveCD
> >>
> >> It's NOT whole disk encryption. It was never advertised as
> >> such.
> >
> > Thank you for the info, I am glad you understand the difference
> > between asking for a password on boot up and having the whole
> > thing encrypted, too many people confuse these terms.
> >
> >
> I can see that there is a difference, but why would it be
> important? If the entire disk is encrypted, how could you do
> anything with it?

We were just discussing the issue of plausible deniability, and
determining if individual encrypted devices/volumes existed at all.
If you need to hide the fact that certain volumes exist then it
becomes an issue.

I haven't tried it out yet, but the nice thing about system
partition encryption is that you should be able to create a hidden
volume on a system partition which would be truly invisible to the
host partition and any OS you have installed there. In theory, the
choice of passwords at boot time could switch back and forth
between two completely different and independent operating
environments. That's an even better alternative to running guest
operating systems under VMWare for some of us, if it's actually
possible.

Has anyone played with this yet? I may have to hook a monitor up to
an old machine. ;)


>
> Andy