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Posted by on September 25, 2006, 12:08 am
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Ricardo wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just come to the conclusion that the only way to protect the machine
> with free physical access to anauthorized personnel is... to encrypt it.
> Unfortunately it seems that this can be done only the lonely by DriveCrypt
> software which costs a lot. It's wonderful stuff indeed allowing to encrypt
> the drive with authentication feature at the pre-boot level! The encryption
> seems excellent AES-256 algotithm. It's only drawback (except for the price)
> is that it doesn't see Linux partitions (not to mention that it doesn't run
> on Linux)which makes them liable to potential attack. It looks like for now
> only Windows operationg system may be securely locked unless you run Linux
> as a VMware guest system on the DriveCrypted Windows host. I wonder what are
> your experiences with respect to securing the stand alone box with
> uncontrolled physical access, like at the University (my case).
> P.S. Have just noticed free stuff called CompuSec PC Security Suite which
> seems both Windows and Linux compatible though as compared to DriveCrypt it
> uses weaker encrypting algorithm AES-128 and looks like is much slower. I
> cannot wait to hear your comments.
> Kindest regards,
> --
Why not just use PGP Desktop personal edition or GPG which is free.
Since you're at a Uni*, why wouldn't you just get yourself a jump drive
and store your files there.
> Ricardo
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