RE: Testing whole disk encryption

[Craig Wright <Craig.Wright () bdo com au>]

histogram analysis
spectral distribution
etc


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From: listbounce () securityfocus com [listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Alan Boulanger [aboulanger () 
springfieldcityhall com]
Sent: Saturday, 9 February 2008 2:59 AM
To: Patrick Hendrick
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Testing whole disk encryption

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?

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      Alan Boulanger
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> take a peek at the drive and it showed as uknown file type or\line
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