[BBLISA] whole disk encryption

[K. M. Peterson]

Love it when email passes in the night...

BitLocker is available only with the "corporate" versions of Windows, including (I think) Windows 7 Enterprise.  There may be functionality that you don't need in Enterprise that you'd have to pay for anyway (and I had a great time trying to get Microsoft to admit there's no real way to upgrade from Professional to Ultimate - which is basically the same as Enterprise).  

My picking at this about a year ago led me to my opinion that it's complicated to deploy.  Great if you have the scale and the infrastructure, which I didn't.  But - if you do, you can integrate it, meaning that it's managed and deployed automatically, and can be fully controlled by your management system.

TrueCrypt is very good for end-users who have been trained to use it.  I don't, however, have any experience using Whole Disk Encryption (I think they call it System Encryption/pre boot authentication).  BitLocker requires hardware support (the Trusted Platform Module).  PGP supports the Mac and Linux for their Whole Disk product.

On 21Aug10, at 19:35 , Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

> Any wisdom comparing BitLocker versus TrueCrypt?
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> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey
> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 1:08 PM
> To: 'Back Bay LISA'
> Subject: [BBLISA] whole disk encryption
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> Presently, I have Mac and Windows laptop users.  The mac users use encrypted sparsebundles, and the windows users use TrueCrypt for encryption.  There are a lot of reasons whole disk encryption would be desirable - mostly in terms of backups.
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> There are a lot of whole disk encryption solutions out there.  I can simply stab into the dark and start trying them ... But I thought perhaps I could benefit from experiences that have been had already...
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> Anybody care to offer their experiences?
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