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RE: Testing whole disk encryption
From: "Alex Bolduc" <abolduc () gogotech com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:33:47 -0500
While the topic is slightly dated, I was prompted by this article (http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Enclosed-but-not-encrypted--/feature s/110136/0) to mention (what may already be obvious to some) that merely verifying that the data is not immediately human-readable does not necessarily imply a level of security that can be considered safe if your security standards are otherwise. -Alex Bolduc -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Mason, Samuel Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:56 AM To: 'Patrick Hendrick' Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: RE: Testing whole disk encryption When I was verifying encryption I simply took the drive out and slaved it to another computer, took the entire system out of the picture. When the other system came up it recognized the drive but wanted to know if I'd like to format it since, according to it, it contained nothing. Samuel Mason CISSP, GCFA -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Patrick Hendrick Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 7:16 AM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Testing whole disk encryption 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)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- 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)