[colug-432] truecrypt

[Keith Larson]

I have had my laptop encrypted (full disk) with truecrypt for years and
have had no issues whatsoever with it.  I work mostly with Novell
products, so I have their iFolder installed to sync all of my
files/folders to my server at home.  This is automatic and transparent. 
Think of on-prem DropBox.  I used to have this server co-located, so
that also addressed my off-site backups, but that changed recently.  I
have a vm setup off-site that I rsync the data off to nightly.  I'm
fortunate that I have a place to do this for free, but I was using a vm
running on AWS for a while to handle this.  It worked very well and was
only running me about $30/mo.  You can have as much storage as you like,
but read the details on the pricing.  It is difficult to estimate up
front.  I started small to get an idea of the cost and then added more
data later when I saw that it wasn't too bad.


Keith Larson
Franklin Computer Services - K12group
klarson at k12group.net
(614) 561-4887 (mobile)
 


>>> Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> 2/6/2014 10:17 PM >>>

Any one have experience with truecrypt?  No real problem with it, just
a little anxious to delete original files that I have put in a truecrypt
volume, like my taxes for the last several years.  I’m afraid I’m going
to do something dumb like accidentally delete the one (10GB
thick-provisioned) file that has everything in it, or that somehow
truecrypt will stop working.

The other thing I’m wondering the best way to deal with is to off-site
backup the volume.  You can’t diff the volume, since it is a binary
file.  Repeatedly copying a 10GB file will start to annoy the place
you’re uploading it to.  Would it make more sense to create a local
and remote truecrypt volume and do something with rsync to keep the
contents in sync as long as both volumes are open?  Hmm, I’m wondering
if a hosting provider like DH would even allow that sort of thing
(assuming it was possible now that I think about it?)

Basically it boils down to looking for suggestions/experience/advice to
both secure sensitive files in case of theft and have them similarly
secured when they live in a remote location.  i.e., I’m not going to put
my tax documents on my Google drive unless they’re inside a container
that Google or anyone else cannot read.  Even then I’m not super
comfortable with that.

thanks!
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