New TrueCrypt v5.0 with full windows system encryption!

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bleed3r

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Cool! I've been waiting for this release. Hopefully I can try it soon.

From the website:

5.0

February 5, 2008

New features:

Ability to encrypt a system partition/drive (i.e. a partition/drive where Windows is installed) with pre-boot authentication (anyone who wants to gain access and use the system, read and write files, etc., needs to enter the correct password each time before the system starts). For more information, see the chapter System Encryption in the documentation. (Windows Vista/XP/2003)
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Wondering how it will work with multiple operating systems on different partitions. It uses its own bootloader to do preboot authentication.

Anyone try it yet?
 
Lucky for me Vista Ultimate deploys the use of BitLocker. Wonder if using TrueCrypt would be better or perhaps run them both... Hmmm...

EDIT:// The official website ( http://www.truecrypt.org ) appears to be currently down (for me at least).

- Joey
 
Works really nice for me, one warning though. TrueCrypt prevents your laptop from going into hibernation mode because it is not supported yet.
 
Can it go into standby/sleepmode? Hibernation is different right? It will be useless for my laptop if I can't use standby/sleep.
 
The only problem with disk encryption on personal systems is the fact you lose the ability to recover data if the OS crashes. For multiple OS installations, you can do it but you have to have the same decryption key on each installation partition or the other encrypted partitions will not be available to all OS installations.

You also need a back door key or application to use in case of system failure or your data will be inaccessable. I don't know if this application has that ability or not, but I would hope it does.
 
Good point BBA. It would be a good idea then to keep the system files seperate from personal files.

So you unlock your system partition before loading the OS with this new feature, then when you're logged in you can unlock/mount your other partition with personal files.

Hopefully I get time to play with it and see how it works with multiple installations and partitions this weekend.
 
TrueCrypt forces you to make a rescue disk in case the Bootloader or master key get corrupt. This will also allow you to permanently decrypt the Windows partition before it even boots the OS.

This is all in the documentation for TrueCrypt 5.0. I also tried it out and it works fine. This feature is new, so I might wait for the kinks (if any) to get ironed out before using it on my main system. I will use it though; provided performance doesn't go down the drain.
 
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