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Re: Windows Encryption Software
From: Ben Carleton <ben () 708x com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:39:24 -0500
On 12/9/2010 8:20 PM, William Herrin wrote:
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim () brandontek com> wrote:I want to know if there's software out there that will encrypt files on win2k3, winxp, win7, so that if someone decides to steal the computer and plug the harddrive into a USB external case, they won't be able to read the files on the harddrive.Save yourself some grief and buy a self-encrypting disk (SED) instead. OS transparent so you won't have the endemic problems with oops it no longer boots and I can't just boot a live cd and access my business critical data. -Bill
+1 - You mentioned Windows 2003 - with truecrypt, you need to type in the password to boot the computer. For desktops and laptops, that's fine, but if your DC looses power or something, you don't want to be the one to have to go around and type in the password for all those servers... Ben
Current thread:
- Windows Encryption Software Brandon Kim (Dec 09)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software John Menerick (Dec 09)
- RE: Windows Encryption Software Brandon Kim (Dec 09)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Suresh Ramasubramanian (Dec 09)
- RE: Windows Encryption Software Brandon Kim (Dec 09)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software William Herrin (Dec 09)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software John Orthoefer (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Ben Carleton (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Jan-Philipp Warmers (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Florian Weimer (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Curtis Maurand (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Michael Holstein (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Curtis Maurand (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Curtis Maurand (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software William Herrin (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Chad Dailey (Dec 10)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software John Menerick (Dec 09)
- Re: Windows Encryption Software Nick Boyce (Dec 14)