Encryption options and suggestions or installed Dapper

[R. Wood]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Allegedly, on Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:31:19PM -0400, Dennis d'Entremont stated:
> On Dec 7, 2007 2:13 PM, Ralph Pichie wrote:
> > I have an updated installation of Dapper on an Acer notebook that I
> > occasionally use for contract work.  I want to encrypt at least part
> > of the data on it, and likely also a couple of USB thumb drives,
> > possibly an ext3 partition on an external hard drive as well.  Note:
> > I am NOT interested in doing a fresh install at this time.
> >
> > What have the experiences been with encryption? Any recommendations?
> >
> > This post will self-destruct in ten seconds, nine, eight, seven...
>
> I've used TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) in the past. It allows
> you to encrypt a whole driver or you can allocate a certain amount of
> data to a "file" and encrypt that. I haven't used it on any memory
> sticks but there might be documentation on the site about it.
> 
> Cheers!
> D

Although I have not used TrueCrypt myself, I certainly plan to, and
soon.  It has an excellent reputation from everyone I have discussed it
with.  AFAIK, TrueCrypt can also be used on memory sticks too (and of
course is FOSS and runs on windows and linux, though not on Mac IIRC)

Let us know how it works out for you :-)

Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
Raymond
- -- 
"Be Nice, or Leave - By Order of the Management"
(Sign above door, Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield)
GPG Fingerprint: 2E4D 8605 DD48 E80F F893  1C02 B65D 86D9 3B3C 0E03
Encrypted E-mail Preferred  |  http://www.yeeguy.com/freefall/
Bush-whacked 2004! Try to relax and enjoy the Chaos :-)  --^
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHWcDxtl2G2Ts8DgMRAuNdAJoCCHgTgkhUgaw0+cI4Q6fa2glXfACg3HFY
LxEj47ZvFC/CDpvDczCzZ+k=
=Xk/X
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----