Sebastian G. wrote:

> Vend wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Sorry to ask, but since TrueCrypt encrypts entire volume including the
> partition table, why shouldn't it be called?

It does not. It *can* encrypt an entire device, but that's a completely
different thing from FDE. They're "similar", but not the same.