Ruling could force Americans to decrypt laptops

[greiner3]

23. Damn people;

There's several great encryption software products out there. In fact, TrueCrypt, an open source one, allows for about 50 character passwords. It may sound crazy but I HAVE forgotten my 35 character password. There is no known way to retrieve the password and I had to reformat the HDD and start over.

There are 2 options this software lets you do; one is the straight forward partition or entire HDD encryption and the other is to create a SECRET partition within the existing HDD. This hidden partition is invisible to any known way to see the partition much less what is inside the partition.

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.

Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.

Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).

Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.

Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.

Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors.

Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:

Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.

More information about the features of TrueCrypt may be found in the documentation.


Note that TrueCrypt never saves any decrypted data to a disk – it only stores them temporarily in RAM (memory). Even when the volume is mounted, data stored in the volume is still encrypted. When you restart Windows or turn off your computer, the volume will be dismounted and files stored in it will be inaccessible (and encrypted). Even when power supply is suddenly interrupted (without proper system shut down), files stored in the volume are inaccessible (and encrypted). To make them accessible again, you have to mount the volume (and provide the correct password and/or keyfile).


Plausible deniability!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!