nemo_outis wrote:

> George Orwell <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote in
> news:d7ac7fb60c39b076fbe85e54bf4ba496@mixmaster.it :
>
> Ah, the first of the whiners and cavillers has arrived. ...with
> a farrago of nonsense. ...just as I predicted.
>
>
> > nemo_outis wrote:
> >
> >> The entire disk IS encrypted, with the exception of the boot
> >> stub on track 0.
> >
> > No, it's not. If you have two partitions and encrypt only the
> > "system" partition the other isn't touched.
>
> Are you usually this thick? Yes, even though you have a
> whole-disk encryption program you can choose not to encrypt some
> partitions - or any of them for that matter. However, choosing
> not to use the program's capability for whole-disk encryption
> doesn't make it one whit less a whole-disk encryption program.

Problem is, with Truecrypt you don't have that choice.

Go ahead and try it. Encrypt an entire drive and see if you can
install an OS to it.

Whole disk my ass. LOL!

>
> As for a boot drive's partition table, some full HD OTFE programs
> may encrypt it, while others may not - just as I said. For
> instance, Bestcrypt Volume Encryption (one of the better
> commercial full-HD OTFE programs) does NOT encrypt the partiton
> table on a fully encrypted hard drive - I have just confirmed
> this with a number of partition managers (using Hiren v9.3).
>
> Why? Because encrypted partition tables are just asking for
> trouble from some program that doesn't recognize that the disk is
> not trashed (i.e., one that misinterprets an encrypted partition
> table as a corrupted one).
>
> Just as I said.
>
> The benefit from encrypting the partition table? None!
>
> It does not hide the fact that you are using encryption - that's
> already instantly discernible by the presence of the encryption
> programs's unencrypted executable stub code on track 0.
>
> As for an unencrypted partition table disclosing info, that
> trivial info is useless for decrypting the contents of the
> partitions or even inferring the nature of what is contained in
> them.
>
> As for Truecrypt supposedly not being a whole-disk encryption
> program, that's just plain wrong. With the release of Version 5
> Truecrypt is now a full-fledged whole-disk encryption program,
> capable of encrypting any or all of the partitions on any of the
> hard drives in a system, including the boot/system one. Of
> course, Truecrypt does have an unencrypted stub on track zero -
> as do ALL other whole-disk OTFE encryption programs.
>
> Just as I said.
>
> ...additional rambling nonsense mercifully snipped...
>
> Regards,