Timeline for What are my options for full system (or at least home directory) encryption?
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| May 12, 2011 at 18:17 | comment | added | Mike Lawrence | I stand corrected. I was unaware that once FileVault was turned on for an account, one needs to enter a master password to change that account's password even when using another admin account. (I just verified this on my machine) | |
| May 12, 2011 at 18:04 | comment | added | Kyle Cronin | @Mike Resetting the user's password isn't enough to obtain access to their filevault. Now if you're talking about cracking the password with some sort of brute force attack, my guess is that you'd be about as successful at that as cracking a Truecrypt password | |
| May 12, 2011 at 18:01 | comment | added | Mike Lawrence | @Kyle TrueCrypt does not employ user permissions; you need to specify a new password for each encrypted volume you create. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 4:59 | comment | added | Kyle Cronin | @Mike I don't see how Filevault is different than TrueCrypt - both mount encrypted volumes that the operating system protects with user permissions. When unmounted (in the case of Filevault, when the user is logged out) they're both just encrypted files on the disk. It's not full disk encryption, but it's no worse than Truecrypt | |
| May 12, 2011 at 4:49 | comment | added | Mike Lawrence | Unfortunately FileVault is nowhere near as secure as whole disk encryption; it's even less secure than simply having a truecrypt volume. This is because FileVault simply employs user permissions to restrict access to its contents, which can be easily overcome if an attacker has physical access to your machine. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 23:02 | comment | added | Michael Stum | @Am1rr3zA Not for whole Disk Encryption though | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 5:57 | comment | added | Am1rr3zA | TrueCrypt works perfect on mac OS X. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 5:29 | history | answered | Kyle Cronin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |