Subj : Cryptography class
To   : Mercyful Fate
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Mar 11 2014 06:56 pm

  Re: Cryptography class
  By: Mercyful Fate to echto on Tue Mar 04 2014 09:41:34

 MF>  I encrypted by drive once, then the passprahse and keys ended up not
 MF>  working when i rebooted and i had to wipe and start over.  It was pretty
 MF>  painful.. don't think i will bother with programs like true crypt
 MF>  anymore.  Some utils in linux work nice for encrypting the paritions
 MF>  when your install which work alot nicer then trying to encrupt after the
 MF>  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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