Ask HN: Best encryption solution for personal stuff (images, videos etc)?

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by jgalvez • 17 years ago

7 4 17 years ago

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Looking for a tool or a script or a set of script that use popular but safe encryption standards to encrypt personal images and videos. What do you use?

zain• 17 years ago

http://www.truecrypt.org/

greatfog• 17 years ago

But see "TCHunt - Quickly Search Drives For TrueCrypt Files" (http://16systems.com/TCHunt/).

mishmash• 17 years ago

On the Mac it's hard to beat Automator and encrypted disk images:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1578

BjornW• 17 years ago

It depends on what you want to do. Do you want full-disk encryption or just one encrypted partition/file? Personally I use full-disk encryption. From what I've read its recommended to encrypt the whole system and not just a partition if you don't want important data leaking into the non-encrypted parts of your system.

On Ubuntu Server I selected full LVM encryption during installation. Everything except the /boot is encrypted, which works great without too much overhead even on this aging 1,3 Ghz machine. I heard good things about TrueCrypt as well, which should work with OS X and Windows but I haven't used it myself.

Btw I did use Filevault on OS X for my whole disk and the experience was less than pleasant. Especially with resume and hibernation. This was with 10.3 (Panther), so it might be better now.

Ask HN: Best encryption solution for personal stuff (images, videos etc)?

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