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o : offtopic@delphi.org.nz 9 August 2007 • 7:17PM -0400

Re: [DUG-Offtopic] True Crypt/Password Safe
by Rohit Gupta

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Its working well for me.  For speed reasons, I might tend to copy disk
intensive stuff out for working on.  My only concern is - does it get
fragmented ?  will normal disk defraggers work ?  I am  not game to try
them  :-)

John Bird wrote:
> I saw references recently to True Crypt for protecting customer test data on
> my PC - I have got hold of it and it does indeed look terrific.
>
> The only possible thing I could see going wrong is that the file with the
> folder structure inside it getting corrupted and becoming unreadable......I
> am gathering from the FAQ and the comments of others it is pretty robust.
>
> Anyone using it want to confirm it does withstand a good amount of day to
> day thrashing without breaking easily?   For instance is it safe enough to
> run disk intensive legacy programs on large data files inside a TrueCrypt
> volume, or is it better to copy the working versions outside of it.
>
> And of course I really got to make sure I don't lose the password!  Hence
> the interest in Password Safe.
>
> Up to now I have been storing such stuff in zip files and encrypting them
> with my own routine,  which sort of works OK,  but it is a bother to
> unencrypt and unzip when I want to get at them.
>
> John
>
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