Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

2011-03-30 Thread Jonathan Link
up some encrypted storage on an SBS 2003 server using Truecrypt, just a simple encrypted container, no encryption of system drive. The server is also running AVG 9 but the Truecrypt container folder has been excluded from RT scanning. Two folders on the encrypted volume have been shared

RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

2011-03-30 Thread Carl Houseman
Yes and nothing will change that. The data must remain reasonably secure if the server is stolen. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003

Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

2011-03-30 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Nope, I haven't seen that problem, although I am not using TrueCrypt on SBS 2003, just Windows 2003, Win7, Win2008 R2 *ASB *(Professional Bio http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio) *Technology Services that Maximize Business Results... * On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Carl Houseman

Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

2011-03-30 Thread Jonathan Link
My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether or not it really is an AVG/Truecrypt problem. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Carl

RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

2011-03-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
, 2011 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP

Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

2011-03-30 Thread Jonathan Link
*Subject:* Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few days. Also, can you actually replicate the problem if you revert to the original DfsIRPStackSize for MUP? You can then test whether

RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

2011-03-30 Thread Michael B. Smith
-software.com Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? So, is this your roundabout recommendation of suggesting an upgrade? :-) IIRC Bitlocker wasn't available for SBS 2003 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.commailto:mich...@smithcons.com

RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-03-30 Thread Kent, Larry CTR US USA
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO +1 -Original Message- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? Lots of customers have data

RE: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003?

2011-03-30 Thread Carl Houseman
to pull off AVG altogether. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Anyone seen BSOD's when using TrueCrypt 7.0a on SBS 2003? My condolences. Were I in your shoes, I'd pull AVG off the server for a few

RE: TrueCrypt and vConverter issues

2010-12-18 Thread Ames Matthew B
Is the Volume Shadow Copy service started? From: Craig Gauss [mailto:c.g.misc1...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 December 2010 21:47 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: TrueCrypt and vConverter issues Checking to see if anyone has any experience with this. Trying

TrueCrypt and vConverter issues

2010-12-17 Thread Craig Gauss
Checking to see if anyone has any experience with this. Trying to convert a Windows 2003 server to a USB drive that has been encrypted with TrueCrypt. Mount the drive and start the conversion and it fails at 1%. Following error: FAILED: Unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s

RE: TrueCrypt

2010-06-25 Thread Cameron Cooper
Agree with ya... at some point we will be including disclaimers on all of our email. _ Cameron Cooper Network Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com On Thu, Jun 24,

RE: TrueCrypt

2010-06-25 Thread Joe Tinney
Admin Issues Subject: Re: TrueCrypt On 23 Jun 2010 at 10:02, Jeff Brown wrote: one of the owners wants the answer to this question: If a drive becomes unusable(physical issue with the drive) will this make it impossible for us to recover data from that drive? If the drive is recognized

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-25 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: If the entire drive is encrypted how would SpinRite be able to correctly identify the filesystem type and update the appropriate entries when it moves data? SpinRite is not filesystem aware. All SpinRite does is read each

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-25 Thread Andrew S. Baker
+5 -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: If the entire drive is encrypted how would SpinRite be able to correctly identify the filesystem type and

RE: TrueCrypt

2010-06-25 Thread Joe Tinney
System Admin Issues Subject: Re: TrueCrypt On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote: If the entire drive is encrypted how would SpinRite be able to correctly identify the filesystem type and update the appropriate entries when it moves data? SpinRite

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-25 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Joe Tinney jtin...@lastar.com wrote:  It seems I need to educate myself some more on how hard drives and their electronics flag bad sectors independent of the file and operating system! Modern hard drives reserve some spare blocks, which are not visible to

RE: TrueCrypt

2010-06-24 Thread Brian Desmond
So disclaimer, I've not used TrueCrypt, but if you have Win7 or Vista, Bitlocker + AD is a good management story. It's also all in the box and you've got someone to call when it breaks. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: Jeff Brown [mailto:2jbr...@gmail.com

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-24 Thread Jeff Brown
Bitlocker is good, but comes with a very limited number of Win7 deployments, like ultra and the SA version only. That wasn't going to work for us in this environment. On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.comwrote: *So disclaimer, I’ve not used TrueCrypt, but if you

RE: TrueCrypt

2010-06-24 Thread Kyle Plummer
TrueCrypt works very well for us. I have it installed on all computers, and on a number of external USB hard drives and flash drives. Even when VIPRE quarantined critical system files a while back and the PC wouldn't boot, it wasn't difficult to get around. I pulled the drive, slapped

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-24 Thread Kurt Buff
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Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-24 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Depending on the case and jurisdiction, it may be sufficient to undermine any argument that information that was inappropriately passed on was done so unknowingly. In general, however, I agree that it's dumb. Yet, lawyers continue to get paid at rates that typically exceed our own. So, take

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-24 Thread Kurt Buff
Shakespeare had it right... On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 14:31, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Depending on the case and jurisdiction, it may be sufficient to undermine any argument that information that was inappropriately passed on was done so unknowingly. In general, however, I

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-24 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 23 Jun 2010 at 10:02, Jeff Brown wrote: one of the owners wants the answer to this question: If a drive becomes unusable(physical issue with the drive) will this make it impossible for us to recover data from that drive? If the drive is recognized in the BIOS, you can run SpinRite

TrueCrypt

2010-06-23 Thread Jeff Brown
After watching the very interesting thread a week or so ago about encrypting laptops we decided it was time for us to get that done here. We looked at several options, but honestly chose TrueCrypt based on the number of folks in this group who use it and gave if favorable reviews. We have

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-23 Thread Dave Vantine
the very interesting thread a week or so ago about encrypting laptops we decided it was time for us to get that done here. We looked at several options, but honestly chose TrueCrypt based on the number of folks in this group who use it and gave if favorable reviews. We have it installed on 3 laptops

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-23 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jeff Brown 2jbr...@gmail.com wrote:  If a drive becomes unusable(physical issue with the drive) will this make it impossible for us to recover data from that drive? If the drive is having hardware trouble, it's already a crap shoot as to whether you'll get

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-23 Thread S Powell
at 08:02, Jeff Brown 2jbr...@gmail.com wrote: After watching the very interesting thread a week or so ago about encrypting laptops we decided it was time for us to get that done here.  We looked at several options, but honestly chose TrueCrypt based on the number of folks in this group who use

Re: TrueCrypt

2010-06-23 Thread Jeff Brown
. We looked at several options, but honestly chose TrueCrypt based on the number of folks in this group who use it and gave if favorable reviews. We have it installed on 3 laptops so far and have no complaints, but one of the owners wants the answer to this question: If a drive becomes

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Gill
From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 1:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there We're not getting the password prompt..and we can't access the machine because if you cancel out it locks it. John W. Cook Systems

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Mitchell
Doesn't TrueCrypt have a cmd interface? I used it a while ago (4.x) and had a .cmd file to mount and dismount an encrypted drive (USB-based in that instance). Mike. From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 3:15 pm To: NT System Admin Issues

Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-04 Thread John Cook
We're experimenting with said encryption program but have run into an issue - if the laptop is set up outside the docking station with the software there is no password prompt once the laptop is put into the docking station ie a different hardware profile is presented. Any ideas?? TIA John

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-04 Thread Sam Cayze
Um, what are you encrypting? *.tc files, or the whole drive? From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any TrueCrypt users out there We're experimenting with said encryption program but have run into an issue

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-04 Thread John Cook
, March 04, 2009 4:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there Um, what are you encrypting? *.tc files, or the whole drive? From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any TrueCrypt users

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-04 Thread Steven Calvanese
I setup our laptops outside the docking station with TrueCrypt last week. Most of the users leave the laptops on their docking stations and they are still required to input the password. From: John Cook [mailto:john.c...@pfsf.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 04

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-04 Thread John Cook
, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ From: Steven Calvanese [mailto:scalvan...@membersolutions.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there I setup our laptops outside the docking station with TrueCrypt last week. Most of the users

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-04 Thread John Cook
: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there We're not getting the password promptand we can't access the machine because if you cancel out it locks it. John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-04 Thread Steven Calvanese
PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there BTW we're using version 6.1 John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE

RE: Any TrueCrypt users out there

2009-03-04 Thread Joe Tinney
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but can TrueCrypt be centrally/remotely managed or does using the full disk encryption require you to be at each system for setup, password changes and other management/maintenance tasks that may be associated with it? From: Steven Calvanese

Autoplay / Autorun on Truecrypt USB

2009-02-20 Thread Peter van Houten
While several posts have been submitted to the list concerning the dangers of allowing USB sticks to automatically run programs, I have the necessity of carrying encrypted USB sticks and prefer that they start automatically when inserted whether the host PC has Truecrypt installed

Re: Autoplay / Autorun on Truecrypt USB

2009-02-20 Thread Jeb Barger
encrypted USB sticks and prefer that they start automatically when inserted whether the host PC has Truecrypt installed or not. As the contents of my USB sticks are encrypted, I have cobbled together the following routine to automatically start Truecrypt and mount the encrypted drive

Re: Autoplay / Autorun on Truecrypt USB

2009-02-20 Thread Kurt Buff
USB sticks to automatically run programs, I have the necessity of carrying encrypted USB sticks and prefer that they start automatically when inserted whether the host PC has Truecrypt installed or not. As the contents of my USB sticks are encrypted, I have cobbled together the following

Re: Autoplay / Autorun on Truecrypt USB

2009-02-20 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 20 Feb 2009 at 19:00, Kurt Buff wrote: And here I am, preparing to turn off Autorun/Autoplay on every machine I touch, because of conficker... I'm with you here. Requiring someone to open a TrueCrypt batch-file isn't that much of a hassle IMHO. Cleaning out infections is. -- Angus

TrueCrypt 5 Released, has full disk encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Sam Cayze
% (Windows) * Mac OS X version * Graphical user interface for the Linux version of TrueCrypt * XTS mode of operation, which was designed by Phillip Rogaway in 2003 and which was recently approved as the IEEE 1619 standard for cryptographic protection of data on block-oriented