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Monthly Archives: November 2008

Stop internal drive showing up in "Safely remove hardware"

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Like many of you, I had a drive that showed up in the “Safely remove hardware” tray icon, and was unable to remove it.
The trick is to subtract 4 from the Capabilities in the registry. Not easy, but it can be done. The only thing is that it keeps coming back after every boot ! [...]

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Full disk encryption single sing-on and secure backup

Thursday, November 6, 2008

I have a been a TrueCrypt user since version 4.0. I used to have an half-baked solution of TrueCrypt, EFS with SYSKEY option 2 (password). When full disk encryption was introduced, I finally got a laptop encryption scheme that I like. It features :

Strong cryptography
Thank TrueCrypt for 256 bits AES in XTS mode. I [...]

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