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Encrypted Virtual Drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jill.Ramonsky@Aculab.com)
Tue Jul 8 12:48:27 2003
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From: Jill.Ramonsky@Aculab.com
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:29:22 +0100
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Hi,
Could anyone offer any thoughts on what is the "best" encrypted virtual disk
drive, which can run on (at least) Windows XP Pro.
I used to use the free version of PGPdisk (which you get with PGP version
6.0.2i), but that won't work with Windows XP.
I also used to use ScramDisk, but that also won't work with Windows XP.
I have been using new version of PGPdisk (PGP version 8.0), but there are a
number of problems with that: being (1) the license ($50) seems to be
enforced per-computer, not per-user, so if you upgrade from one computer to
another you either have to pay again or plead your case with the PGP
Corporation's support centre (which is only open during office hours Monday
to Friday, so don't try this during the weekend), and (2) their web site had
some problem last weekend such that it wouldn't actually let me buy a new
license even though I was prepared to pay for it, and (3) the format of the
container volume is totally incompatible with that of PGP 6.0.2i. These
problems combined mean that if your computer totally dies, to get your data
back (assuming the existence of a backup) you are reliant on a single
company to grant you a new license to get the software working, and getting
that licence is not necessarily easy.
I have also tried the new version of DriveCrypt (the successor to ScramDisk)
... but I worry about this because the company who make this (Securstar) no
longer provide source code.
I'd kind of like to write my own, but doing the crypto is just the easy part
- the hard part is actually writing a virtual drive - I can't find any
tutorials on that part.
So I put it to this list, what do folk here reccommend?
Jill
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<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial size=2>Could anyone offer
any thoughts on what is the "best" encrypted virtual disk drive, which can run
on (at least) Windows XP Pro.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I used to use the
free version of PGPdisk (which you get with PGP version 6.0.2i), but that won't
work with Windows XP.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I also used to use
ScramDisk, but that also won't work with Windows XP.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been using
new version of PGPdisk (PGP version 8.0), but there are a number of problems
with that: being (1) </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT
face=Arial size=2>the license ($50) seems to be enforced per-computer, not
per-user, so if you upgrade from one computer to another you either have to pay
again or plead your case with the PGP Corporation's support centre (which is
only open during office hours Monday to Friday, so don't try this during the
weekend), and (2) their web site had some problem last weekend such that it
wouldn't actually let me buy a new license even though I was prepared to pay for
it, and </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>(3) the format of the container volume is totally incompatible with that
of PGP 6.0.2i. These problems combined mean that if your computer totally dies,
to get your data back (assuming the existence of a backup) you are reliant on a
single company to grant you a new license to get the software working, and
getting that licence is not necessarily easy.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have also tried
the new version of DriveCrypt (the successor to ScramDisk) ... but I
worry about this because the company who make this (Securstar) no longer provide
source code.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd kind of like to
write my own, but doing the crypto is just the easy part - the hard part is
actually writing a virtual drive - I can't find any tutorials on that
part.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial size=2>So I put it to this
list, what do folk here reccommend?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=653181210-08072003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Jill</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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