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Using DiskCryptor keyfile for full disk encryption is something possible and not supported by Truecrypt, a keyfile will thwart dictionary attacks on your passphrase but this keyfile can not consist of anything it has to be a 64 byte file generated by DiskCryptor. Unlike Truecrypt, DiskCryptor bootloader is highly configurable, I have my own (Ascii) logo at logon and I instructed DiskCryptor to time out after 30 seconds of inactivity at which point the computer reboots, other options like halt and exit to BIOS are possible.

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When using special signs in your password be aware that in booting up your computer the keyboard has a US layout that will not correspond with a non US keyboard, I searched for a photograph of US keyboard layout on the Internet to make sure there would be no mistakes about what keys to pres. Truecrypt will ask you to enter your password after rebooting your computer before encrypting your operating system, DiskCryptor will not, it assumes you entered the passphrase correctly twice as asked and did not make any mistake. You can benchmark ciphers in Truecrypt too but since only AES can be used for full disk encryption there is no point in doing it.

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DiskCryptor download is a tiny 750Kb, after installing it you will need to reboot the computer, you might notice that its 64bit drivers come signed by the ReactOS foundation a non for profit organization assisting open source projects not able to acquire an expensive signing certificate to distribute Windows 64bit drivers.Įncrypting my Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit OS, with a fairly powerful Intel i5 2200Hz (quad core) absorbed very low CPU, a steady 7% of the available resources, it took me 20 hours to encrypt a 1TB hard drive, it would have been considerably quicker using just the AES algorithm instead of the cascade algorithm I selected.ĭiskCryptor lets you know how long it will take to encrypt your operating system, you can still work with your computer while it is being encrypted, I advice you to temporarily disable power management in Windows and set it to always on, Windows will not notice the hard disk being encrypted and send the OS into hibernation mode believing the computer is inactive, if this happens full disk encryption will stop and only resume once you switch the computer back on, I have found this problem to occur with both DiskCryptor and Truecrypt, more of a Windows problem than to do with the full disk encryption software.ĭiskcryptor lets you benchmark the encryption ciphers ( Tools>Benchmark) if you have a low spec CPU and are in a hurry you can choose the cipher that performs best in your system, AES was the quickest for me, by quite a lot of difference in contrast with Twofish and Serpent, once the OS has been encrypted it doesn’t matter what cipher you used to encrypt it, performance will be the same.