nemo_outis wrote:
> "Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in
> news:612qppF1tk96tU4@mid.dfncis.de:
>
>> Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> So then my fully encrypted harddisk with even an encrypted partition
>> table is pure imagination?
>>
>>> Go ahead and try it. Encrypt an entire drive and see if you can
>>> install an OS to it.
>>
>> Who cares for installing an OS? This drive only contains data, the OS
>> is on another media.
>
>
> Yep, Sebastian, you've got it entirely right.
>
> Yes, Truecrypt in addition to file-based and partition-based encrypted
> storage, also supports device-based OTFE storage. The device-based
> versions do not have a partition table and are essentially
> "floppy/superfloppy-ish." Device-based encrypted storage is primarily
> useful for floppy disks, USB pendrives, and such but the Truecrypt docs
> say a HD can also be be used this way.
>
> Superfloppyish-based encrypted storage is only suitable for data storage,
> not for a bootable Windows system. In fact, independent of any
> encryption aspects, Windows has been deliberately crippled so it can NOT
> boot/run from removable media such as superfloppies (Microsoft says it's
> a licencing issue). (Some folks have crafted end-runs around this
> limitation of Windows, using tricks such as RAM drives.)
>
> But all this is beside the point. With Truecrypt 5 one can now encrypt
> *any and all partitions* on any drive, including the boot/system
> partition. This is all that is needed for complete OTFE protected
> storage for both the Windows system itself and all data on it.
>
> Regards,

Thank you. Why is cryptography inhabited by such obnoxious anti-social
twats?