nemo_outis wrote:


> Truecrypt (for v5 as for previous versions) represents in its documentation
> that it does NOT change in any way (much less encrypt) the partition table
> on a drive on which Truecrypt partitions reside (i.e., does not encrypt it
> and has no special Truecrypt signature byte). I heven't checked whether
> this is indeed so in all cases.


Maybe this statement was confusing: TrueCrypt can encrypt entire drives and
mount it as a raw volume. Within this volume, you can create a partition
table and associated partitions, which may or may not be additionally
encrypted, or you may put there whatever you want.

An attacker seeing the raw encrypted volume will only perceive random
garbage at the place where the partition table would reside, and indeed one
must be very careful to not run any partitioning tools with admin privileges
while the raw volume is not mounted.