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Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:23:18 -0600, none wrote:

> It says in the TC guide that TC works with Win 7.  Evidently, my new 8
> core computer with Windows 7 Ultimate is too new for the old TC, which
> works fine on my other computer running XP SP 3.
> 
> It blew my C: Windows.  It booted into the DOS screen and said it could
> not find an O.S.  It asked for the password, but wouldn't accept it. 
> What saved my butt was the recover disk I had made when I got the
> computer.
> 
> I have used TC full disk encryption a number of times through the years,
> including on my standby XP machine.  It ain't that hard to use.
> The instructions are very easy to follow.
> 
> I don't know if VeraCrypt is truly as safe as True Crypt. The latter has
> sent the powers that be into court a number of times in an effort to
> force a computer owner to open an encrypted drive.  So far as I know,
> that has yet to be the case with drives encrypted with VeraCrypt. 
> That's why I still trust TrueCrypt.  However, I now have to trust
> VeraCrypt.  It is open source, so hopefully enough high powered techs
> have examined it.  Since in the few years it's been around, I haven't
> read of any of those encryption savants point out any serious
> compromises in it.
> 
> My advice is that anyone with a newer updated Windows 7 to make dang
> sure you have created a full save of your system and files, system
> restore points, plus having made a recovery disk before you attempt
> using TC.  My machine would now be a doorstop had I not had all these.
> 
> Just thought I'd give out this warning of what happened to me.

First, for those of you claiming no problems with TrueCrypt, note the op 
wants to encrypt the whole drive which may be more problematic than 
creating volumes.
Second, either one is sufficiently secure for whatever it you are trying 
to protect. If an agency has to go to court to gain access it means some 
pretty savvy people couldn't access the data.
Being security conscience is prudent, paranoia is another matter. I 
switched to VeraCrypt when I moved to Linux, it's a little slower to 
decode the password and annoyingly slow if you type in the wrong 
password, although this might discourage people's guessing attempts.
I only create one volume to hold just the stuff that needs protecting. I 
create similar volumes on backup media for easy file backups.
Of course, everyone should make an image of their os and backup data 
files, preferably confining those to a separate partition.

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TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate none@none.nets - 2018-02-13 01:23 -0600
  Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2018-02-13 02:48 -0600
    Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2018-02-13 13:32 +0000
      Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2018-02-13 16:25 -0600
  Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate "Linea Recta" <bleep.bleep@bleep.invalid> - 2018-02-13 13:42 +0100
  Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate Dave <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2018-02-13 15:27 +0000
    Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate none@none.nets - 2018-02-13 21:36 -0600
      Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2018-02-14 22:29 -0500
        Re: TrueCrypt 7.1a Does Not Worik With My New Win 7 Ultimate kellly85@whoosh.comquat - 2018-02-14 22:51 -0600

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