I generally have two 10GB partitions that hold important documents and personal work (so generally small files but a very large number of them - some 3000). I am planning to merge them into a 100GB partition that holds multimedia files and store the contents are truecrypt files that I can then mount separately.
I have two questions in relation with this:
1. How reliable is a truecrypt partition? If there is a corruption in a single bit of the file, will the whole volume fail to load? What degree of tolerance can I expect (comparing with NTFS)? I don't really think I need to encrypt my stuff, but I like to follow best practices - since my system is a laptop and since some of the files include copies of very important documents. I'd probably much rather have someone steal my files than me lose access to them at a critical time. I do weekly backups to a non-encrypted external drive.
2. What about performance? What kind of settings (encryption) would give me the best performance for my requirements while not being easily hackable? Would it make sense to keep the volume files on a separate partition to prevent fragmentation? Or is it like once space is allocated to the volume file, truecrypt only overwrites the bits inside it (this is wrt to a volume of fixed size)?
Are there any "exploits" aside from keyloggers and brute-forcing that can give anyone else access to the contents of truecrypt volumes? Since it's open-source, I am not expecting there'd be any backdoors.
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I generally have two 10GB partitions that hold important documents and personal work (so generally small files but a very large number of them - some 3000). I am planning to merge them into a 100GB partition that holds multimedia files and store the contents are truecrypt files that I can then mount separately.
I have two questions in relation with this:
1. How reliable is a truecrypt partition? If there is a corruption in a single bit of the file, will the whole volume fail to load? What degree of tolerance can I expect (comparing with NTFS)? I don't really think I need to encrypt my stuff, but I like to follow best practices - since my system is a laptop and since some of the files include copies of very important documents. I'd probably much rather have someone steal my files than me lose access to them at a critical time. I do weekly backups to a non-encrypted external drive.
2. What about performance? What kind of settings (encryption) would give me the best performance for my requirements while not being easily hackable? Would it make sense to keep the volume files on a separate partition to prevent fragmentation? Or is it like once space is allocated to the volume file, truecrypt only overwrites the bits inside it (this is wrt to a volume of fixed size)?
Are there any "exploits" aside from keyloggers and brute-forcing that can give anyone else access to the contents of truecrypt volumes? Since it's open-source, I am not expecting there'd be any backdoors.
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