Encrypting Entire Hard drives

Pedro Díaz Jiménez pdiaz88@terra.es
Wed Jul 11 17:14:02 2001


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If you are using linux, you will probably want loop-AES, which does what you 
want, faster and trasparently. You can use AES 128, 192 or 256, depending on 
the speed/security tradeoff you wish.

Software, PGP signatures and keys at
http://members.surfeu.fi/ce6c8edf/

Regards
Pedro

On Wednesday 11 July 2001 12:41, Richard B. Tilley wrote:

> If this is in the faq, please forgive me.
>
> How well does GNUpg encrypt entire hdds or whole partitions?
>
> I have lots of senetive material spread out over several partitions and
> several drives. I think it would be easiest and fastest if I could just
> encrypt all the hard drives instead of trying to encrypt the indiviudal
> files and directories. Has anyone here had experience doing this?
>
> Thank you,
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