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Whole disk encryption

I’d love to hear from anyone using whole disk encryption. I’m carrying enough private data on my laptop now that I think it’s time to encrypt my data. That could be as easy as turning on FileVault, but I’m a bit worried about performance (my current laptop is an iBook G4 1.4GHz/1GB RAM).

TrueCrypt also looks awful good, with good reviews and a well-developed site and documentation.

If there’s no response, I’m gonna try both, one at a time, and I’ll report back here. I don’t usually do the flash drive thing, but I know some people who do, and they’re interested as well.

Posted Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 11:53 am under Nerdliness. Follow responses with the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Whole disk encryption”

  1. Scott Lawson writes:
    February 9th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    I’ve used TrueCrypt to encrypt external HD’s before, but not directly on a system disk. Performance was very good, pretty much the only limiting factor for me was the speed of the USB connection of the HD. I can say that TrueCrypt did a very good job for what I’ve needed it for.

  2. cbd writes:
    February 11th, 2009 at 9:55 am

    Thank you, Scott. Good timing from Slashdot: How To, When You Have To Encrypt Absolutely Everything?

  3. viknord writes:
    February 12th, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    Like Scott, I’ve been using Truecrypt. I started using it about 3-4 years ago primarily as a sensitive information container/folder, but have recently (about 6-8 months ago) used the “Whole Disk Encryption” (WDE) to encrypt an entire laptop hard-drive (OS is Win XP) being used at work.

    The WDE works great and I don’t notice any slow downs.

    I’ve gotten spoiled with Truecrypt WDE on the Windoze machine – ease of use – and really wish Truecrypt had the same feature for Linux.

    Cheers!