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jcdavis
on Oct 9, 2013
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A public TrueCrypt Audit
The delta changes on a modified truecrypt volume is basically the whole file. Still acceptable for smaller volumes generally though
nknighthb
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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. It's a tradeoff, but it's the only way to make disk encryption practical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_encryption_theory
acqq
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It can't be? When the container is 10 gigs and I change one file there aren't 10 gigs writes. It would last "forever."
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