On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:57:23 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> On 17/08/2011 06:05 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:57:29 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>>
>>> On the other hand, for £0 you can download a copy of GPG and manually
>>> encrypt all your files before putting them onto an external storage
>>> device.
>>
>> Of course, file by file encryption makes the encryption obvious.  Try
>> truecrypt instead. :)
> 
> Oh, GPG is quite capable of taking /multiple/ files and encrypting the
> entire lot as one binary blob. So all you know is that it's encrypted,
> and how big it is. You can't tell how many files are inside, nor what
> their uncompressed size is...

I haven't looked at GPG in a while, but didn't know it could do that.  
I'll have to have another look at it.

But with Truecrypt, you can encrypt the entire device and there's no 
indication of anything on it other than just random data.

Jim

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