nemo_outis wrote:

> "Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in
> news:613o84F1taan2U3@mid.dfncis.de:
>
>> nemo_outis wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If you have some argument to show how an unencrypted partition table
>>> would permit decrypting the contents of of an encrypted partition,
>>> then make it.
>>
>> It doesn't. What it permits is to differ the encrypted disc from
>> random data, and it permits knowledge about the partitioning of the
>> volume inside the encrypted container.
>
> But it is a limitation of Windows, not of Truecrypt or any other whole-disk
> OTFE program, that causes the difficulty.


Actually it is a limitation of TrueCrypt: It could actually encrypt the
partition table and decrypt it on the fly, it would just require a special
check for block 0 to not trying decrypt the MBR part and start decrypting at
the location of the partition table.

Additionally, if you do the pre-boot stuff, the MBR containing this code
would also differ from random data. But TrueCrypt does not permit storing
the MBR on another media and do some redirection.