Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:

> nemo_outis wrote:
>
>> George Orwell <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote in
>> news:cfba7ec8f8b207e0a1bd089fe3255024@mixmaster.it :
>>
>>> nemo_outis wrote:
>>>
>>>> There must - necessarily! - be a small amount of unencrypted code on
>>>> the boot/system volume. This is invariably located on track 0.
>>> Nope! I fact with *true* whole disk encryption there is absolutely no
>>> unencrypted information on a device at all.
>> Uhh, doofus, Windows cannot boot from a completely encrypted disk because
>> there's nothing to decrypt those first bytes to even get the process
>
> Wrong!
>
> Windows can trivially boot from a completely, 100% end to end including
> sector 0, encrypted drive without modifying Windows at all, without
> using any external bootstrapping at all, and without using any stupid
> "boot sector copying" scheme.


OK, now I'm interested: How is this supposed to work? If everything is
encrypted, where's the code for the decryption?