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Old 02-09-2008, 06:30 PM
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Default Re: Truecrypt 5.0 Released (now with system partition encryption)

nospamatall wrote:

> Sebastian G. wrote:
> > Anonymous wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> Maybe you're just stupid. Why do you narrow your views to one
> >>> drive? You can have two or more. One contains the operating
> >>> system, does the pre-boot stuff and has an identifyable partition
> >>> table. The second drive is meant to store data, and is fully
> >>> encrypted, including the partition table.
> >>
> >> Maybe you're just a lying sack, desperately trying to change the
> >> rules to try and win a point.
> >>
> >> Can you install an OS to ANY device that's been encrypted by
> >> Truecrypt? No.

> >
> >
> > That has never been a requirement.

>
> You can install an OS and then encrypt the whole drive.


Actually, no you can not. If you do this, you destroy the operating
system and everything else on the drive. Truecrypt has no
non-destructive encrypting tools *except* for the system partition tool.

> Maybe you can do
> the other thing too, but I doubt we would find out anything useful from
> these folks!


Nope. There's no way to bootstrap a Truecrypt encrypted device. They
can't even really be mounted properly. This is one of the key things
that tells you Truecrypt isn't a FD OTFE tool.

If the explanation in their own words isn't enough for you that is. ;)











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