Tweety.Abd Posted June 11, 2011 Share Posted June 11, 2011 Hey,I just wanted to know what are the best or recommended HD Encryption softwares available there. I'm currently using BitLocker, but I don't know if it's any good or what encryption mention it uses or anything else. Please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxhedroom Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 If I remember right, BitLocker has been circumvented...I think. Afaik, TrueCrypt is the hands-down favorite when it comes crypto...also heard that Jetico is decent as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 I prefer PGP Desktop... always relied on it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted June 12, 2011 Author Share Posted June 12, 2011 I prefer PGP Desktop... always relied on it...PGP is now Symantec? I like the product, but I don't know if there's a fix for PGP whole disk encryption :( http://www.symantec.com/business/whole-disk-encryption Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Yeah, PGP somewhere between versions 9 and 10 went Symantec but I think only in ownership... There have been a few UI changes... but thats about it.. There are some versions out there you could probably find.. I am not for sure as of now though.. I tried to find the PGP Portable .. which is a part of some of the same stuff.. but have yet to find it.. wanted it for a Flash drive I had... makes no sense to me as to why they don't bundle it all... :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruelsister Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 I really wonder how many of these programs have hidden backdoors coded into them so that when there is need the data can be easily decrypted. If, say, the NSA offered the software's author a Statistically Insignificant Monetary Outlay (chump change) of 10 or so million to do this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted June 13, 2011 Share Posted June 13, 2011 Currently that is not to be legal but was on the table at one point.. The problem is when yo create such a thing you are going to ruin the whole purpose of such as being an unbreakable system with adequate security.. it also breaks trust internationally.. many implications being the point..I do know that with version 9.. I encrypted a 80 GB HD.. and the only backup method of getting it unencrypted after speaking with PGP on the phone was to make a small ISO disk to unbreak the lock down.. cracking the encryption key would have probably not happened.. by the time you unbreak an encryption key someone is going to be looking for it or found you already.. A lot of these securities are to keep information from falling into criminals hands in the private sector.. among which encryption may not necessarily be their forte'.. anyway.. so.. stolen hardware and company information will not be breached.. nor lawsuits concerning that information.. in which laws govern those who are entrusted with it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted June 13, 2011 Administrator Share Posted June 13, 2011 O.T. Once there were news that OpenBSD's encryption had a FBI backdoor, the OpenBSD devs searched and found only common vulnerabilities not backdoors, later a former FBI chief or someone said that they did try to do it before, but they were unsuccessful. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety.Abd Posted June 14, 2011 Author Share Posted June 14, 2011 What type of encryption does BitLocker use, and is it any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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