On 08/18/2011 09:34 PM, Andreas Förster wrote:
Since we're on the subject... I've been tempted on and off to encrypt my
hard drive, but after getting burned once a hundred years ago when
encrypted data turned into garbled bytes all of a sudden I've been
hesitant. I've gone so far as to install TrueCrypt (on a MacBook), but I
haven't put it into action. Before I do, the big question:
What software do people on the bb use for encryption? What can be
recommended without hesitation?
For Linux: checking the encrypted disk option of the installer (if I
remember well I did this with a Ubuntu Linux once).
Regards,
F.
Thanks.
Andreas
On 18/08/2011 1:19, Eric Bennett wrote:
John,
Since so many people have said it's flawless, I'd like to point out
this is not always the case. The particular version of the particular
package that we have installs some system libraries that caused a
program I use on a moderately frequent basis to crash every time I
tried to open a file on a network drive. It took me about 9 months to
figure out what the cause was, during which time I had to manually
copy things to the local drive before I could open them in that
particular program. The vendor of the encryption software has a newer
version but our IT department is using an older version. There is
another workaround but it's kind of a hack.
So I'd say problems are very rare, but if you run into strange
behavior, don't rule out encryption as a possible cause.
-Eric
