Re: Cryptography class
By: Mercyful Fate to echto on Tue Mar 04 2014 09:41:34
I encrypted by drive once, then the passprahse and keys ended up not
working when i rebooted and i had to wipe and start over. It was pretty
painful.. don't think i will bother with programs like true crypt
anymore. Some utils in linux work nice for encrypting the paritions
when your install which work alot nicer then trying to encrupt after the
install.
Something like that happened to me once.. One time, I discovered that Windows had a drive encryption feature, and I thought that might be useful to keep my data secure, so I decided to encrypt the data partition on my drive. Then that computer had some kind of hardware failure where it wouldn't boot anymore.. I didn't really have the time to figure out what was wrong, so I decided to buy a new computer - it was the only time I ever bought a pre-built computer, and I discovered that I could not easily recover my data partition because it was encrypted.. If I remember right, I think what I ended up doing was plugging my original hard drive into the new computer and booting into Windows on it so that I could read the data partition, and I copyied the data off to an external drive.
I've never used drive encryption again..
Nightfox
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