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Kirito

I just lost my USB flash drive and decided to encrypt every drive (flashdrives and external HDDs) in case of loss or theft. I know that Bitlocker is already included in my Windows installation but I have some questions:

1. People download third-party software instead of the already-included Bitlocker. Is this because Bitlocker is "weaker", easily cracked, or have backdoors?
2. How long should the password be to make decryption time like 100+ years?
3. Is this combination satisfactory? - lowercase alpha + numbers + symbols

++METHOS · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2016 7:38 am Post subject:

I suppose it depends on the who. If it's your family, most anything will probably be sufficient. If it's the NSA, probably nothing that is freely available to the public will work.

hhhuut · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:50 am Post subject:

TrueCrypt is good but has some known issues that could lead to containers being cracked (although the effort would still be immense). Especially since its development has stopped at version 7.2a.

There are some successors like VeryCrypt which I'd count as good ...

As to Bitlocker, well, the encryption may be good, but
1) It's Microsoft, I don't want to know how many planned backdoors there are
2) as an american company, microsoft is bound by law to give an agency (like the NSA) the information they want.

Kirito · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:03 am Post subject:

Sorry if I forgot to mention this, but I intend to encrypt my drives against normal people who know how to decrypt/brute force and highly skilled intelligent people who are actually hackers. I know there are a lot of them out there, LOL.

I'm pretty sure it's impossible to hide any soft of information from the government, especially the NSA and I'm fine with that since I don't have any illegal activities.

atom0s · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:08 pm Post subject:

Do you really think hackers care what's on your hard drive? Are you some important business person? Do you own a massive cooperation? If not there is pretty much 100% guarantee they don't care about you or your drives. And you are not a target of their attacks.

JohnathanSweeney · Newbie cheater Reputation: 1 Joined: 04 Apr 2016 Posts: 20

I agree with what was said, for most people encryption is just overkill. But perhaps you have some sensitive data for work etc...

I recommend VeraCrypt as hhhunt recommended, you can encrypt your entire system, just a disk or a usb stick or even just individual drives. I use it just to encrypt the drive that contains sensitive information for my job.

Also I suggest everyone encrypts their phones, current laws in the USA provide that street cops can look through your phone if it is unencrypted. If it is encrypted they require a search warrant. This'll stop your friendly neighborhood police officer from looking at naked pics of your girlfriend just because you ran a stop sign Razz

zakalla · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 10 May 2015 Posts: 15

I've encrypted my USB stick for work with a full phrase in East Asian language, the whole line taken from literature based on a version published about 15+ years ago.

Seems to be working perfectly fine.

hhhuut · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:25 am Post subject:

++METHOS · Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2016 4:50 am Post subject:

H4x0rBattie · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:50 am Post subject:

I would not trust to anything that is done by MS. Windows 10 itself is a spyware and they want badly every Win7 user upgrade to it.

TrueCrypt is probably safe. Though there has not been development for a while does not mean it's getting crappy.

To be honest there is something fishy going on there.

Godcheatslife · Newbie cheater Reputation: 0 Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Posts: 18

Why not try one of the open source encryption programs like pgp?