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No, it's not. Disk encryption products like TrueCrypt do not have the properties you expect from ordinary file encryption. Only a subset of blocks are modified.
by nknighthb 13y ago
No, it's not. Disk encryption products like TrueCrypt do not have the properties you expect from ordinary file encryption. Only a subset of blocks are modified. It's a tradeoff, but it's the only way to make disk encryption practical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory