Encrypted Virtual Drives

Jill.Ramonsky at Aculab.com Jill.Ramonsky at Aculab.com
Tue Jul 8 06:29:22 EDT 2003


Hi,
 
Could anyone offer any thoughts on what is the "best" encrypted virtual disk
drive, which can run on (at least) Windows XP Pro.
 
I used to use the free version of PGPdisk (which you get with PGP version
6.0.2i), but that won't work with Windows XP.
 
I also used to use ScramDisk, but that also won't work with Windows XP.
 
I have been using new version of PGPdisk (PGP version 8.0), but there are a
number of problems with that: being (1) the license ($50) seems to be
enforced per-computer, not per-user, so if you upgrade from one computer to
another you either have to pay again or plead your case with the PGP
Corporation's support centre (which is only open during office hours Monday
to Friday, so don't try this during the weekend), and (2) their web site had
some problem last weekend such that it wouldn't actually let me buy a new
license even though I was prepared to pay for it, and (3) the format of the
container volume is totally incompatible with that of PGP 6.0.2i. These
problems combined mean that if your computer totally dies, to get your data
back (assuming the existence of a backup) you are reliant on a single
company to grant you a new license to get the software working, and getting
that licence is not necessarily easy.
 
I have also tried the new version of DriveCrypt (the successor to ScramDisk)
... but I worry about this because the company who make this (Securstar) no
longer provide source code.
 
I'd kind of like to write my own, but doing the crypto is just the easy part
- the hard part is actually writing a virtual drive - I can't find any
tutorials on that part.
 
So I put it to this list, what do folk here reccommend?
 
Jill
 
 
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