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How many of you use encryption?
jgpaiva:
That "pre-boot autentication" got me thinking: would you be able to change the password?
I change my windows password very frequently, thus if changing that password would involve decrypting + encrypting the whole disk again, it'd make no sense in my case.
f0dder:
Holy moley, TC5 adds some very nice stuff. System-partition support is really really nice, and pipelined operation sounds interesting.
Would definitely use this on a laptop, dunno about my workstation though.
jgpaiva:
Following up on what i mentioned above:
Note that the volume header (which is encrypted with a header key derived from a password/keyfile) contains the master key with which the volume is encrypted.- TC help file
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Which means that your key only encrypts the master key, thus, you can change it without having to encrypt the whole disk.
Ok.. I think that the next time i format my machine, i'll use system-partition encryption :)
f0dder: why wouldn't you use it for the main workstation?
f0dder:
f0dder: why wouldn't you use it for the main workstation?-jgpaiva (February 06, 2008, 08:40 AM)
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Simply because I'm not sure whether I have a reason to do so, and I would have to evaluate performance and stability first. Which includes waiting some months before going "live" on my system, to see if any horror stories pop up. Not that I expect any, but my data is preciousssss to me.
Renegade:
f0dder: why wouldn't you use it for the main workstation?-jgpaiva (February 06, 2008, 08:40 AM)
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Simply because I'm not sure whether I have a reason to do so, and I would have to evaluate performance and stability first. Which includes waiting some months before going "live" on my system, to see if any horror stories pop up. Not that I expect any, but my data is preciousssss to me.
-f0dder (February 06, 2008, 08:46 AM)
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Very valid objection.
Encryption just isn't worth the pain right now unless you have some very valuable data. And in that case, it's worth paying for a commercial solution that has weight behind it.
How many people here really need to encrypt their drives? I don't have any kiddie porn...
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