On 15 Feb, 19:32, Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer
<anonym...@remailer.cyberiade.it> wrote:
> Sebastian G. wrote:
> > Krazee Brenda wrote:
>
> > > The only question is <drum roll>
>
> > > Is it whole disc encryption and/or OTFE?
>
> > TrueCrypt can encrypt entire disks/volumes, and this has been there since at
> > least version 4.0.
>
> That doesn't make it WD/FD according to any accepted definition of the
> term. The happenstance that a partition of volume can consume an entire
> device is irrelevant. Products like Truecrypt and Bestcrypt are not
> whole disk encryption, and don't pretend to be.
>
>
>
> > I would still refrain from using it, because it's sadly full of security
> > vulnerabilities. Pretty much like any other FDE software out there. :-(
>
> Rubbish. Your "vulnerability" hasn't been addresses because it's not a
> vulnerability at all.

Sorry to ask, but why is the difference between full disk encryption
and partition encryption so important?