On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > Will this work for -everything- that could go on a drive? (In other words, > if I set up an encrypted disk, will web caches, cookies, and all of the > other 'trivial' junk be encrypted without really slowing down the PC?)
Depends on how well you build the encryptor. If you put a box between the board and the disk which has lots of static ram you can pretty much make speed a non-issue. > The reason I ask is that's it's very easy to imagine that, say, FedGroup X > wants to take out some outspoken or otherwise questionable person by > secretly introducing some kiddie porn or whatnot onto the drive. 15 minutes > later they burst through the door and grab the PC. > If I buy PGP off the shelf, will it make the ENTIRE drive encrypted? (And > will I wait half an hour for "Hard Drinkin' Lincoln" to download?) PGP is file based. It would be hard to push data onto a drive, but it's pretty easy to eavesdrop. Usuall targets do stupid things, much easier to take advantage of that. A web search on "encrypted disk" will get you some software based tools. Patience, persitsence, truth, Dr. mike
