[SATLUG] Hardware Encryption

[james]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:28 -1000, Sean Carolan wrote:
> On 2/19/07, james <jtiner at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> > have you looked at truecrypt?
> 
> Yes, and I actually managed to completely wreck a working Windows XP
> installation with it.  I was trying to encrypt the entire "home"
> directory (Documents and Settings), something went wrong and the
> installation was hosed.  At this point I don't really want to muck
> around with software-based encryption because I dual-boot with WinXP
> and Linux, and maintaining it across two different platforms on
> different partitions is a hassle.
> 
> Basically I want a setup where I turn on the box, type in my pass
> phrase and let the hardware encryption do it's thing, whatever OS I
> happen to be using.

Yep, it is a little cantankerous when setting up a new encrypted volume.
you can delete all data that you intend to encrypt if you don't do it
right... :(