welcome to lineus Tech tips today we're going to show you how to encrypt a
volume on your computer and that can be kind of like a like a container like a
folder that you put a bunch of stuff in or it can be in the form of an entire
Drive in your PC or even something like a removable drive so it's done at a
partition level and we're going to start with how to create that container so the
first thing you do is use true Crypt basically thumbs up true cryp does
things right you want to never save history that's important click create
volume here you get a bunch of different options so we're going to show you the
create encrypted file container although create a non encrypt a non-system
partition Drive is a good one as well and it has a couple slightly different
steps that we'll show you at the end we're going to use a standard true Crypt
volume a hidden true Crypt volume is a little bit different from a standard one
so what that is is it's an encrypted it's an encrypted container that has an
encrypted container Within that's invisible so if you guys understand what
that means it's like if someone had a gun to your head and was like let me
into that encrypted folder or I'm going to pop you one you know and stuff um then you could
give them the password for that one and they would actually think you put some
fake stuff in there so they would think they're getting your important stuff but
it's actually within another container inside of it so that's probably
unnecessary for 99% of people unless
you're like the CEO of you know Toyota and you have a new car coming that's
better than all of your other cars and you don't want people to know about it um okay so you create a volume location
select a file so we're gonna we have we have one that we created already as a
test so this is just going to be the test one save and this file you can put
anywhere in the computer won't even know what to do with it if you double click
on it it'll just ask how to open it and it won't yeah won't know what to do
never save history and you can hide that anywhere you can throw it in like a
system folder you can even keep it on the desktop because it won't look like anything you could call it a and it
wouldn't be descriptive at all for encryption algorithm use AES and the
default hash algorithm is also fine click next you can specify the size of
your volume much like a folder you can just say okay we're going to create this
sort of this container that's going to be 10 gigs big and that's what we can
put in there so we're going to create one that's 10 gigs shows you how much
free space you have on the drive where you created the container next password
okay password creation lots of special characters are good it has limit of 64
characters but some of the strongest passwords and easiest to remember could
actually be a phrase like Capital Rumble
the cat is a good pet is actually an
extremely strong password because of how many characters it is you can confirm it
Rumble the cat is a good pet and then you can actually display password to
make sure that you typed it correctly as you were going next large files do you
want large files I would pretty much go with yes because that's just the uh the
file system that it's using so we're in NTFS this stage is important you want to
move your mouse around as randomly as possible because computers can't be
completely random they just don't work that way and they want you to kind of
make it more random by being random
about the way that you move the mouse so there you go that's about as random as I
think I can be the longer you go the stronger the volume will be so if you
want to sit there for an hour you could but I suspect there's a law of diminishing returns at some point there
now we format our encrypted volume and Y
SSD and fast processors it is uh creating itself at around 600 megabytes
per second so we'll be able to uh come back and well you know what whatever you
guys can just chill you know what's a good joke you hear the one about the uh
actually I don't I can't think of any jokes right now you hear the one about the uh SSD
that uh race a hard drive they beat
it and I'm getting like the thumbs up from slick do you hear the one about the
mechanical keyboard that died and I'm getting the sad face from
slick and apparently it's alive now so Slick's keyboard is fine there we go and
we're done so now what we're going to do is go
into our documents folder be
done okay you know what it doesn't matter because I can show you guys the other one I created so here legitimate
G-rated movies is right here it's some file it's five gigs if you double click
on it it has no idea what to do with it so the way that you actually access it
is you go to there we go that one's done now so
you only click next if you want to create another one so actually yeah I
said I'd do that at the end so let's do this first so mounting a
drive look okay so you enter a hold on
yeah you have to select a file first so we're going to go with legitimate G-rated movies we are going to mount it
to drive letter m so this one was this
strong password
okay yeah this oh I don't think I
capitalized okay no really this is a good way to do
it there we go so now it is mounted in
Drive M so now our computer actually just sees it as a normal disc so you can
see that there are legitimate G-rated movies inside if we wanted to create if
we wanted to mount another encrypted volume we would just select another Drive letter select a different file
such as test one and click Mount typing
in uh Rumble the cat is a good pet and
that one is now mounted in Drive letter oh there you go there's our 10
gig volume now the procedure is slightly different for something like a USB drive
so in this case we're going to take it one step further by not only encrypting
our volume but also having it hidden inside a pen so this USB drive is going
to go into the computer somehow there we
go okay that did not fit that well so
we're going to go ahead and put it in that one all right so removable dis e
encrypt a non-system part okay so we're going to create a standard one again
we're going to select our device so you actually select the partition right
there partition 1 3.7 gigs which is essentially the whole drive you can
select a whole drive but it won't work if you already have partitions on it
click next create encrypted volume and format it there we go and from there all
of the options are pretty much the same
it takes a while to create the encrypted partition on a USB drive because they're
so slow so what we've done is we've finished that I'm going to go ahead and
plug this in now there's a couple different ways that you can access them
you can see here you need to format the disc and drive E before you can use it
if you format it it will format it it'll wipe it because Windows doesn't know
what to do with this encrypted volume on here so a couple different things you
can do you can Auto Mount devices so that true Crypt will look for it and
help Windows find it or you can select a device and go manually to the device
and mount I actually forget the password
for this what was the password for this one is it wasn't the no it wasn't like
this is a good password this is a strong password oh wait no it was the rumble
one it was the rumble Rumble is a good
pet
no Rumble is a good cat whatever the point is if someone doesn't know your
password it'll take them years and years and years to Brute Force this so uh make
sure that you remember your password or you're going to end up in a situation
like this and you cannot get it back
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