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Re: Testing whole disk encryption
From: Patrick Hendrick <phendrick () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:31:02 -0500
Ok, I will crank up my google-fu. Are there any tools that are better than others to perfom such a test?
Alan Boulanger wrote:
entropy tests... Patrick Hendrick wrote:I've recently installed the latest TrueCrypt version which does whole disk encryption. I have encrypted my HD on my laptop and want to verify that it is doing what it is saying that it's doing. So far to test I have used the Knoppix Insert seurity live CD and tried to mount the drive. Unsuccessful as I figured it should be. Then I used GParted to take a peek at the drive and it showed as uknown file type or unformatted. Anything else I can do to verify the encryption?
Current thread:
- Testing whole disk encryption Patrick Hendrick (Feb 08)
- Re: Testing whole disk encryption Alan Boulanger (Feb 08)
- Re: Testing whole disk encryption Patrick Hendrick (Feb 11)
- RE: Testing whole disk encryption Craig Wright (Feb 11)
- RE: Testing whole disk encryption Mason, Samuel (Feb 11)
- RE: Testing whole disk encryption Alex Bolduc (Feb 19)
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- Re: Re: Testing whole disk encryption tony . chogyoji (Feb 11)
- Re: Re: Testing whole disk encryption tony . chogyoji (Feb 11)
- Re: Re: Testing whole disk encryption warpig8993 (Feb 11)
- Re: Testing whole disk encryption Alan Boulanger (Feb 08)