System Secuirty - Password Access with No Back Door ?

0neAnd0nly · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:31

Basically, I have a lot of files and work that I don't want getting into the wrong hands if I have a break in or nosey friend. What is the best encryption that will totally prevent the best of computer hacker get into my computer and will it slow down performance ?

I don't care about email encryption and public keys etc, I just want a highly secure password protection upon start up that prevents even the top guys gaining access. Or maybe boot my OS on a SSD and encrypt my secondary hard drive if it would slow down performance ?

ZeniTimes · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:34

hiding all your porn from your girlfriend?

0neAnd0nly · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:37

ZeniTimes said:
hiding all your porn from your girlfriend?

Haa, You really think I'd need to encrypt my computer just to hide porn !

Gtiracer · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:40

I think Windows Ultimate has a built in Encryption thingy, failing that, truecrypt your hard drives and have a password set up for on boot plus an extra secure password for windows logon, make sure you set the administrator account password as well

ZeniTimes · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:41

depends on your definition of "porn"

In answer to your first question, encryption will effect performance

fini · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:44

Can I point out that if the police remove your computer, find it is encrypted and you refuse to give them the key you are committing a further offense.

Divide by Zero · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:47

Zenitimes, why does it have to be porn? It could be his accounts?

Everyone hides that stuff right?

kae2 · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:49

Truecrypt.

I have encrypted drives for my off-site backups. I haven't done before/after speed tests, but I haven't noticed any performance hit.

Divide by Zero · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:50

Also, if you want to hide something from someone in plain sight, there was a program called Chameleon. It was basically winzip, only instead of having porn.zip you could give the file a front... so while it was porn.zip, it was called say accounts.xls and if you clicked the file with anything other than chameleon, you would just get accounts.zip.

That was some time ago, but depending on what you want to hide it may help.

ZeniTimes · 4 Feb 2011 at 14:53

must be encrypting accounts of some kind or another... some thing that you would not want anyone to get to or see...

OP, do you have unsecured wireless in your area??

0neAnd0nly · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:01

ZeniTimes said:
depends on your definition of "porn"

Thats really bad dude lol

fini said:
Can I point out that if the police remove your computer, find it is encrypted and you refuse to give them the key you are committing a further offense.

Not if I forgot the passwords ?

ZeniTimes said:
must be encrypting accounts of some kind or another... some thing that you would not want anyone to get to or see...

OP, do you have unsecured wireless in your area??

I'm with Sky Broadband, it seems pretty secure.

Would it be best if I use a SSD for Windows 7 and use a secondary drive that has all my personal stuff, password protected and encrypted ? But will Windows 7 SSD drive keep history or temp files that was opened or saved onto the encrypted drive ?

So which one is best ?? Truecrypt, PGP . . . ?

ZeniTimes · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:13

0neAnd0nly said:
Would it be best if I use a SSD for Windows 7 and use a secondary drive that has all my personal stuff, password protected and encrypted ? But will Windows 7 SSD drive keep history or temp files that was opened or saved onto the encrypted drive ?

So which one is best ?? Truecrypt, PGP . . . ?

Sounds like you are into some serious **** dude

fini · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:25

0neAnd0nly said:
Not if I forgot the passwords ?

In reality you'd never get away with 'woops I forgot lolz'. Nobody will believe you.

aaa801 · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:27

Wow what do you have to hide there

aes256 is prety nice

edscdk · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:33

office 2003 / 2007 /2010 jsut put a password on the document...

if the stuff is illegal you WILL go to prison if you are investigated and dont give over the password though... also I assume if the stuff is not illegal and you are investigated but forget the password!!!! (assuming the plod want access)

edscdk · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:34

ZeniTimes said:
Sounds like you are into some serious **** dude

PEDO stash !!!

Divide by Zero · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:37

What else would you need to hide so well?

I had to hide the list of presents I was gonna get my GF fro xmas as she was after finding it... but you can hide stuff from prying eyes easy without encryption!!

0neAnd0nly · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:38

Nothing illegal just private and could cost me if someone stole it !

aaa801 said:
Wow what do you have to hide there
aes256 is prety nice

Yep, I'm thinking of TrueCrypt AES-Twofish-Serpent combo with maybe Evidence Eliminator or CyberScrub Privacy Suite to wipe my deleted files every week

What you think ?

Divide by Zero said:
What else would you need to hide so well?

Accounts, client details, work, passwords . . . I'm paranoid because theres been a lot of break ins lately advertised in my local paper, some of them sound really crazy and unbelievable lol and I thought that If they see my computer through the window, they might think they can make some cash. I just want to be safe than sorry.

ZeniTimes · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:40

0neAnd0nly said:
Damn, what encryption did he use to prevent even the police! xD

PEDO

edscdk · 4 Feb 2011 at 15:40

Divide by Zero said:
What else would you need to hide so well?

I had to hide the list of presents I was gonna get my GF fro xmas as she was after finding it... but you can hide stuff from prying eyes easy without encryption!!

exactly, if you have an illegal stash of stuff, encrypt it...

if you have some patent documents about a super idea password it

if you are a big corp jsut encrypt everything

if you have jsut normal home stuff who cares? password the odd doc thats private...

encryption = possibly nightmare of a recovery if there is an issue with the drive or OS