nospamatall wrote:

> Anonymous wrote:
> > 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 would have thought that this is not an issue with TrueCrypt,
> because the hidden partition is within the free space of another
> encrypted partition and thus doesn't show up anywhere else?

except maybe in caches, swap space, histories and logs, last
modified fields, etc...........

with whole disk nothing can ever be leaked to another partition or
anywhere else that anyone can see without owning the keys.
partition encryption can leak like a sieve.