Security Basics: Re: Testing whole disk encryption

[Alan Boulanger <aboulanger () springfieldcityhall com>]

entropy tests...

Patrick Hendrick wrote:
> I've recently installed the latest TrueCrypt version which does whole 
> disk encryption. I have encrypted my HD on my laptop and want to verify 
> that it is doing what it is saying that it's doing. So far to test I 
> have used the Knoppix Insert seurity live CD and tried to mount the 
> drive. Unsuccessful as I figured it should be. Then I used GParted to 
> take a peek at the drive and it showed as uknown file type or 
> unformatted. Anything else I can do to verify the encryption?
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     Alan Boulanger
     Director of Information Security
     City of Springfield, MA
     aboulanger () springfieldcityhall com
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