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Posted by Notan on January 24, 2007, 2:41 pm
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> Peter wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have two questetions about DriveCrypt Power Pack. I have encrypted my
>> system partition (C) and my data partition (D) and my external harddisk (E),
>> which I use for making backups. Booth authentification is on and I have
>> created a rescue floppy.
>>
>> 1. Now I was wondering what I should have done in case of the following
>> situation: suppose my computer is stolen and the only thing that is left is
>> my encrypted external harddisk. When I connect this harddisk to another
>> computer, install DCPP and import the (exported) key, is this sufficient for
>> decrypting my external harddisk? Or should I have backuped the entire
>> keystore?
>
> Who knows? Read the documentation and ask the vendor. Generally, the answer
> seems to be: No, almost all of these software packages are totally fucked
> up and add some random information that you'll lose.
>
>> 2. Does the keystore have to be located on the encrypted system partition or
>> can it also be located on the encrypted data partition (D)? I can imagine
>> the if I locate it on the encrypted D drive, booth authentification cannot
>> read the keystore and the system won't start.
>
> Now that's a trivial conclusion.
>
>
> Anyway, who cares? You're running DriveCrypt, thus the encryption is just a
> worthless additional transformation of your data. Brute-forcing the key by
> attacking the key-generation scheme or some other flaw in the
> implementation has usually been very successful against this crappy
> software.
Cites?
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Notan
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