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Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops

From: Rich Graves <rgraves () CARLETON EDU>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:54:53 -0500

Also, you can backup the header of a TrueCrypt volume (full disk or
otherwise) and then change the password on the TrueCrypt volume to the
user's choice.  You'll then have a backup header that can be restored
with a known password (see the "Restore Volume Header" section at


...and be sure to instruct the user ***not*** to invalidate the old
backup header, as TrueCrypt suggests they do right after changing
their password.

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"Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Chris Kidd (Sep 15)
- Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops SCHALIP, MICHAEL (Sep 15)
  - Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Anthony Maszeroski (Sep 15)
  - Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops King, Ronald A. (Sep 16)
- Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Brad Bickford (Sep 15)
  - Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Roger Safian (Sep 15)
- Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Alex Keller (Sep 15)
- Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Dr. Wole Akpose (Sep 15)
  - Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Alex Keller (Sep 15)
  - Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Eric C. Lukens (Sep 15)
    - Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Rich Graves (Sep 16)
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- Re: "Stand Alone" Hard Disk Encryption for Home/Personal PCs and Laptops Eric Jernigan (Sep 16)