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Whole Disk Encryption For Vista?

Posted by timothy on from the just-wait-for-it dept.

Q7U writes "After reading about several laptop thefts and losses, my boss wants me to set up whole disk encryption for her Vista travel laptop. After doing some research, it seems she has three options: Bitlocker (part of Vista Ultimate), PGP Whole Disk Encryption, and TrueCrypt. My main problem now is choosing one. I can't find any comparitive reviews of these products to determine which will be the best choice, so I was hoping the Slashdot crowd could suggest which product they would go with and tell us what they liked about their choice."

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  1. No Comparisons? by toleraen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You could always, you know, type it into Google.

    1. Re:No Comparisons? by aztektum · · Score: 5, Funny

      The first hit from your link is this /. story, upon which the first comment is yours. I just spent the last hour going in circles!

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      :: aztek ::
      No sig for you!!
  2. didn't you hear? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't you hear? They found the laptop in the same locked room where they thought it was missing from. So there's really nothing to worry about.

  3. Re:Fourth option by Nos. · · Score: 5, Informative

    We went with Safeboot also, but given the submitter's description, I wouldn't recommend it. Safeboot is nice for an enterprise type rollout, not for one laptop. You really don't want to support the backend infrastructure for one machine.

    Go with TrueCrypt or BitLocker for a one-off.

  4. Re:Why whole disk? by Nos. · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just truecrypt the saved data.

    Because there are too many "gotchas" to not do FDE these days. Did you configure all your applications to only cache/auto-save/etc to the "secure" area of the drive? Did that last update to application Y override those changes? What about hibernation mode? The pagefile?