Cryptography Virtual Hard Drive's and Bitlocker?

February 02, 2018

Cryptography Virtual Hard Drive's and Bitlocker?

Virtual Hard Drive's and Bitlocker?
Device-independent cryptography has been proven theoretically, to be verified further in a field experiment within current state-of-the-art technology
Deterministic PGP key generation

Posted: 01 Feb 2018 01:23 PM PST

Long story short, I work for a small company that doesn't really have an IT department, so I usually end up getting tasked with this stuff.

We have a bunch of 2-3 TB external hard drives that store sensitive information. When we originally set these up, we hadn't updated our computers yet so the only option was either to Bitlocker the whole external drive (no 'used space only' was available at that point) or to create a 'virtual hard drive' the size that we needed and Bitlocker that...so we picked the second option. Most of the VHD's are about 1 TB or so.

Question is, since we only read and write date to the VHD that is protected by Bitlocker, are we safe even though the entire external hard drive itself is not encrypted? Or should we take the (very long) time to fully encrypt each one of these hard drive's? I assume we are safe as it is because each VHD that stores information is encrypted, correct?

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Device-independent cryptography has been proven theoretically, to be verified further in a field experiment within current state-of-the-art technology

Posted: 01 Feb 2018 08:28 AM PST

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Deterministic PGP key generation

Posted: 01 Feb 2018 04:02 AM PST

I'd like to create a public/private key pair from a string of random words, and later regenerate the keys from the memorized pass phrase.

How should I go about doing this?

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