Since we're on the subject... I've been tempted on and off to encrypt
my hard drive, but after getting burned once a hundred years ago when
encrypted data turned into garbled bytes all of a sudden I've been
hesitant. I've gone so far as to install TrueCrypt (on a MacBook), but
I haven't put it into action. Before I do, the big question:
What software do people on the bb use for encryption? What can be
recommended without hesitation?
Thanks.
Andreas
On 18/08/2011 1:19, Eric Bennett wrote:
John,
Since so many people have said it's flawless, I'd like to point out this is not
always the case. The particular version of the particular package that we have
installs some system libraries that caused a program I use on a moderately
frequent basis to crash every time I tried to open a file on a network drive.
It took me about 9 months to figure out what the cause was, during which time I
had to manually copy things to the local drive before I could open them in that
particular program. The vendor of the encryption software has a newer version
but our IT department is using an older version. There is another workaround
but it's kind of a hack.
So I'd say problems are very rare, but if you run into strange behavior, don't
rule out encryption as a possible cause.
-Eric
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Andreas Förster, Research Associate
Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs
Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
