RE: Testing whole disk encryption

["Alex Bolduc" <abolduc () gogotech com>]

While the topic is slightly dated, I was prompted by this article
(http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/Enclosed-but-not-encrypted--/feature
s/110136/0) to mention (what may already be obvious to some) that merely
verifying that the data is not immediately human-readable does not
necessarily imply a level of security that can be considered safe if your
security standards are otherwise. 

-Alex Bolduc

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
Behalf Of Mason, Samuel
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:56 AM
To: 'Patrick Hendrick'
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Testing whole disk encryption

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?