Whole Drive Encryption with TrueCrypt 5.1a (Part 1 of 3)
Posted by: Chris in Adventures in IT, tags: mobile, security(Part 1 of 3) (Part 2 of 3) (Part 3 of 3)
Well, I just purchased a new 120GB hard drive for my refurbished laptop. That brings the total paid for my refurbished laptop to just over $600. I’m wondering if I should have bought a refurbished one now. Anyway, I will be using TrueCrypt to do whole drive encryption on the new hard drive. I could have done this on the old one, but I wanted more space anyway. This includes pre-boot authentication. It also helps protects my drive from being removed from my laptop and put into another computer to be mined (via some sort of USB adapter or something). Steve Gibson of GRC Corporation and the Security Now podcast has done his own testing and reported a throughput increase for data instead of an overhead decrease. I’m totally fascinated by this and it implies that the TrueCrypt drivers for accessing your hard drive are just so much more efficient than the ones that come with Windows. I’ll let you know how it goes after I get the hard drive installed.
Get your own hard drive upgrade from Newegg.com, that’s where I buy most of my stuff.
Western Digital Scorpio 120GB 2.5″ ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive
