Pretty wicked open source encryption package

gregmcc, I'm interested to know if you use it as an end-user or if you applying it for business purposes?

If for business don't you get a bit frustrated not having a central source of management? Some sort of policy controller or variable keyfile generator?

I've just been playing around with the folder encryption with the hidden encryption as well (neat feature!) Does the WDE slow down the machine at all? When I ran the benchmark some of the encryption methods, expecially when two-fish and serpent are used together, have a rather slow read/write when encrypting and decrypting...
 
I've also been using it for years, though only to protect sensitive information (tax info, banking details, passwords and the like). As you'd imagine, it has a pretty secure password :p

Cybermoo, AES with a strong password should be ample.
 
two fish and serpent are known for there slower read / writes due to the permutation blocks and the way it shifts the data, AES(Rinjdael) is the best way to go these days as it stands for the (Advanced Encryption Standard). You wanna feel slow encryption try blowfish >.<
 
Cybermoo said:
gregmcc, I'm interested to know if you use it as an end-user or if you applying it for business purposes?
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Were currently busy with a project looking at encryption for desktops. Although truecrypt is a awesome free product it has some limitations - central control, resetting of forgotten passwords etc. We have a few special laptops running truecrypt as currently its better than nothing and they need to be protected. We'll remove it when we make a decision on the final product.
 
gregmcc, have you had a chance to check out PGP's Desktop Encyption. It's got some great central management features which includes everything from policy management right down to distribution of variable keyfiles. :-) It also ties it nicely with other products like RSA so you can have two factor authentication (what I know, what I have) on top of the encryption.

I believe PGP have an evaluation version on their site.

If you are looking for something that is Linux compatible then you can check out Check Point's (Pointsec) Whole Disk Encryption software.
 
Is PGP non freeware now? I remember being able to use it (back in the day) for free.....
 
Cybermoo said:
gregmcc, have you had a chance to check out PGP's Desktop Encyption. It's got some great central management features which includes everything from policy management right down to distribution of variable keyfiles. :-) It also ties it nicely with other products like RSA so you can have two factor authentication (what I know, what I have) on top of the encryption.

I believe PGP have an evaluation version on their site.

If you are looking for something that is Linux compatible then you can check out Check Point's (Pointsec) Whole Disk Encryption software.
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PGP is a standard, not an program

Sorry for trolling
 
Yes and No.
PGP is a software application (pretty good privacy) that makes use of OpenPGP (a open source encryption algorithm)
 
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