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How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the first-step-is-teaching-people-how-not-to-be-stupid dept.

Dark Neuron writes "My institution has thousands of computers, and is looking at starting an IT policy to encrypt everything, all hard drives, including desktops, laptops, external hard drives, USB flash drives, etc. I am looking at an open source product for Windows, Mac, UNIX, as well as portable hard drives, but I am concerned about overhead and speed penalties. Does anyone have experience and/or advice with encrypting every single device in a similar situation?"

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  1. Just install Ninnle! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Several agencies of the US government have been using Ninnle Linux for encryption purposes. It's only necessary to engage the one ultra secure switch and all devices run under 1024 bit encryption, the securest yet and a Ninnle Labs innovation.

  2. TrueCrypt? Please Make the Trolling Stop. by Odder · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please stop. Non free software simply can not be trusted. Debian + whole drive encryption works just fine even with older hardware like a PIII. If the answer is non free software, you have asked the wrong question.

  3. Re:Hard Drive Encryption - Theory vs. Reality by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Troll

    Imagine how embarassed you'd be if they beat you with a wrench to make you reveal your password and all they found afterwards was some goat porn.

    --
    echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  4. Re:TrueCrypt or Wait for On Drive Upgrades by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A: In case he/she forgets his/her password or loses his/her keyfile, you can "reset" the volume password/keyfiles to your original admin password/keyfiles by restoring the volume header from the backup file (Tools -> Restore Volume Header).

    Seriously, a little research isn't hard.

    And while your in your cozy basement at Mom's and your client is about to give his presentation to a potential customer on the beaches of Maui and can't boot the computer because he spent all day drinking pina colada's, and forgot his password. What then? Oh, and he doesn't have your fancy rescue CD (IE: Got scratched, lost when used as a Frisbee, or left behind?)What then?

    Seriously, a little thinking about the real world isn't that hard.

  5. Open is not free. by freenix · · Score: -1, Troll

    Read the license again.

    You may copy and/or distribute This Product, provided that You do not modify This Product (for terms and conditions for copying and distribution of modified versions of This Product, see Chapter III) and provided that You do not include This Product in another product forming Your Product (except as permitted under Chapter III)

    Truecrypt is not free software and security problems have been noted in the past. Only free software should be trusted.