On Aug 19, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > If you use truecrypt, you enable full disk encryption, and export a backup - > I forget exactly how this works, but it forces you to burn a CD. (I was able > to use some tool - I forget what - to "burn" an iso instead.) Then when you > give the laptop to the end user, they can set their own password, and if you > ever need to recover, you can boot from your CD and use the password that you > know and the user doesn't know.
Can you regenerate that CD later? CD-R media "life" is hit or miss and I'd hate for a short-lived CD-R to spell data-doom. -- I prefer to use encrypted mail. My public key fingerprint is FD6A 6990 F035 DE9E 3713 B4F1 661B 3AD6 D82A BBD0. You can download it here. Learn how to encrypt your email with the Email Self Defense guide.
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