RE: Testing whole disk encryption

["Mason, Samuel" <SMason () mt gov>]

When I was verifying encryption I simply took the drive out and slaved it to another computer, took the entire system 
out of the picture.

When the other system came up it recognized the drive but wanted to know if I'd like to format it since, according to 
it, it contained nothing.

Samuel Mason CISSP, GCFA

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Patrick Hendrick
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 7:16 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Testing whole disk encryption

I've recently installed the latest TrueCrypt version which does whole
disk encryption. I have encrypted my HD on my laptop and want to verify
that it is doing what it is saying that it's doing. So far to test I
have used the Knoppix Insert seurity live CD and tried to mount the
drive. Unsuccessful as I figured it should be. Then I used GParted to
take a peek at the drive and it showed as uknown file type or
unformatted. Anything else I can do to verify the encryption?