[Full-disclosure] Drive Crypt Plus

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Since nobody else replied to you I'll throw in my limited experience.

I have associates who use it.  Seems to work very well except 
Hybernate/Suspend functions cease to work (a good side effect actually). 

One nice thing it does is simulates a hard drive failure as the login 
prompt (optional) in case someone steals the laptop.

I did a very basic Bart PE boot test and a live Linux CD boot and it was 
unable to use the encrypted partition. I did nothing more.

They also have a drivecrypt container application (not the Plus), and it 
was pretty nice in that you can burn a container with an executable and 
a few associated files on a CD and it will open in any computer without 
installing anything if you know the passwords.  Nice convenient way of 
securing specific data on CDR.

The Plus package encrypts the entire partition on the fly, and they 
claim to only have 1% performance impact.  The user I am aware of has 
noticed no performance hit (not a power user though).

Don't know if this helps you or not.  I too would like to know if 
anyone's looked for weaknesses in the product.

-Mark Coleman



M4ch3T3 Hax wrote:

> Dear All,
>  
> The company I work for are currently testing a hard drive encryption 
> using Drive Crypt Plus.
>  
> Does anyone out there have any experiences (good or bad) using this?
> Has anyone got any experience with penetration testing this product or 
> extracting data from disks encrypted with this product?
>  
> Any replies would be appreciated!
>  
> Cheers.
>
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