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TrueCrypt is a software application used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE).

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Truecrypt: File vs Device hosted encryption

TrueCrypt allows the user to create an encryption volume on a file or a device hosted encryption on a drive or partition.What is advantage or disadvantage of one over the other?
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Truecrypt or LUKS?

My work requires my laptop hard drive (running Linux) to be encrypted and from what I can tell TrueCrypt and LUKS seem to be the two major contenders out there. In a "normal" system, if the system crashes (power gets cut, etc), it's easy to recover…
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Recommended drive encryption solution

I will soon be purchasing a number of laptops running Windows 7 for our mobile staff. Due to the nature of our business I will need drive encryption. Windows BitLocker seems the obvious choice, but it looks like I need to purchase either Windows 7…
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How to fsck.ext3 a TrueCrypt Volume?

I have a truecrypt file that contains an ext3 file system. Not sure exactly how to word this, but is there a way I can mount the truecrypt volume without actually mounting the filesystem within it so I can attempt to repair it with fsck? So I have…
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Vista / Win7 indexing on TrueCrypt drives

Vista and Windows 7 save bits of information to a central location in the background. Instances I know of are desktop search indexes, recent documents and thumbnails (saved to \Users\[User Account Name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer). How…
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Mount TrueCrypt encrypted system drive on other computer?

I have bought a new HDD for installing a new operating system. Can I, in case I'm missing files, attach the old TrueCrypt-encrypted hard disk to USB and mount it in TrueCrypt? Or doesn't this work for system-encrypted hard disks?
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TrueCrypt for production server - what are my risks?

I want the data on a server to be secure as possible so I intend to use TruCrypt which served me well so far (as a Windows user). Installing, running & mounting isn't an issue. I'm worried about sudden server shutdowns, power spikes, reboots, I…
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Ubuntu 10.4 Full Disk Encryption

Is it possible to setup full disk encryption for Ubuntu 10.4 server? Either natively or with Truecrypt? Additionally, is this something that has to be done at the time of installing the OS, or can it be done afterwards?
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How would you manage keys with TrueCrypt in a business enviroment?

What would be some of the best options for implementing TrueCrypt on all external devices so if any are lost or stolen that the data is not readable to another person but could be managed in a way that users wouldn't accidentally forget their entire…
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Removable volume dismount: drive letter remains reserved

On a Windows 2008 Server regular users are allowed to mount a TrueCrypt volume running a batch as administrator. The volume is dismounted automatically on certain conditions by another batch file ran by Task Scheduler. The volume gets inaccessible…
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Windows Server Backup "the parameter is incorrect" on Hyper-V Core

In my lab I run a Hyper-V Server 2012 Core to run multiple test-systems virtualy. To backup my system I want to use the "Windows Server Backup" role/feature. This role/feature works fine on other systems (include Windows 2012 Server Core) but not…
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Variable size encrypted container

Is there an application similar to TrueCrypt, but the one that can make variable size containers opposed to fixed-size or only-growing-to-certain-amount containers which can be made by TrueCrypt? I want this container to be able to be mounted to a…
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BSOD 90% of the time during a TrueCrypt mount

About 90% of the time when I mount a TrueCrypt share I get a blue screen of death. The error codes I see in the BSOD vary. The last two I saw mentioned eamon.sys and irql_less_than_or_equal. Windows 7 Professional TrueCrypt 7.0a ESET NOD32 AV I am…
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TrueCrypt or EFS?

A subset of my users need a way to share an encrypted folder on the file server. Security is the most important, followed closely by ease of use. It appears that TrueCrypt is easier to set up. Does EFS have any advantages over TC to justify the…
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Truecrypt - disk stops reading/writing with regular intervals (Ubuntu)

I am running Ubuntu Lucid with a raid0 setup Intel Xeon X3440 - 4x (2x 2.9GHz) 16GB RAM I got a 1.9TB truecrypt7.0 file container with AES located in my /home (where raid is). When testing network performance in different ways, like wget, it seems…
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