Having an encrypted external HD that nobody can get into w/o a password

1. 2018-03-06 at 4:28 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   How can I do this? I mean like max security.
2. 2018-03-06 at 4:29 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   VeraCrypt full disk encryption
3. 2018-03-06 at 4:38 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Doesn’t really matter, but use cascading encryption for added (theoretical) security. I use AES(Twofish(Serpent)), with Whirlpool hash
4. 2018-03-06 at 4:40 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Thanks, I’ll look into that
5. 2018-03-06 at 5:33 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   What are ya keeping on there, budm
6. 2018-03-06 at 5:35 PM UTC

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   Only people who enjoy child pornography do this.
7. 2018-03-06 at 5:40 PM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition

   Originally posted by HTS Only people who enjoy child pornography do this.

   
   W R o n g
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8. 2018-03-06 at 5:41 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by aldra W R o n g

   
   I’m curious what would u recommend for OP
9. 2018-03-06 at 5:46 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by HTS Only people who enjoy child pornography do this.

   
   Not true at all. You could keep a list of passwords to various sites, nudes of ex gf’s, other information you might not want people to see. There are a lot of reasons.
10. 2018-03-06 at 5:51 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Jeremus What are ya keeping on there, budm

    
    Mostly just sensitive information, and a lot of personal things. I just get a little paranoid about having so much personal information on something that could possibly be stolen or lost someday.
11. 2018-03-06 at 5:52 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Jeremus What are ya keeping on there, budm

    
    I keep a bunch of sex tapes with past women, identification documents, travel documents, private keys for crypto, some other stuff.
12. 2018-03-06 at 5:55 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Fox Paws I keep a bunch of sex tapes with past women, identification documents, travel documents, private keys for crypto, some other stuff.

    
    Exactly. Suck it, hts
13. 2018-03-06 at 5:55 PM UTC

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    benny vader YELLOW GHOST

    Originally posted by greenplastic Not true at all. You could keep a list of passwords to various sites, nudes of ex gf’s, other information you might not want people to see. There are a lot of reasons.

    
    child pornography seems to fulfill all these criteria.
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14. 2018-03-06 at 6:04 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by benny vader child pornography seems to fulfill all these criteria.

    
    Only because you watch it. It’s like when dumbass druggies think that every reference everywhere has to do with drugs
15. 2018-03-06 at 7:57 PM UTC

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    benny vader YELLOW GHOST

    Originally posted by greenplastic Only because you watch it. It’s like when dumbass druggies think that every reference everywhere has to do with drugs

    
    if your not doing anything wrong ...
    
    you have nothing to hide.
16. 2018-03-06 at 8:23 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole

    Originally posted by Fox Paws Doesn’t really matter, but use cascading encryption for added (theoretical) security. I use AES(Twofish(Serpent)), with Whirlpool hash

    
    Lol. This is way beyond overkill and will do nothing but unnecessarily load your CPU and make disk operations slow as shit. There isn't even really a theoretical advantage because nobody is ever going to try to crack the ciphertext directly. It's computationally impossible even with something considered 'weak' like 128 bit blowfish. Passwords are almost always the weak link and so an attacker will pour his resources into brute forcing the hashed version on disk, which he can then use to unlock the volume's master key.
    
    You're better off using AES (128 bit is plenty secure and usually faster, especially with the hardware instructions built into newer CPUs) with a strong password (30+ characters) and strong hashing (scrypt or bcrypt, while not widely implemented, are designed specifically to be hard to brute force. Otherwise PBKDF2 with lots of iterations is fine).
    
    Linux cryptsetup is the best program I know of for setting up volumes. If you're on windows then you have no security anyway and all of this is a waste of time.
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17. 2018-03-06 at 8:36 PM UTC

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    benny vader YELLOW GHOST

    Originally posted by inb4l0pht with a strong password (30+ characters)

    
    strong passwords are totally unnecessary when you use 4 chinese characters.
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18. 2018-03-06 at 8:52 PM UTC

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    Zanick motherfucker [my p.a. supernal goa]
    If the government can withhold information from me, I should be able to withhold information from them too.
19. 2018-03-06 at 9:06 PM UTC

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    Originally posted by greenplastic Not true at all. You could keep a list of passwords to various sites, nudes of ex gf’s, other information you might not want people to see. There are a lot of reasons.

    
    You could, but let's be real. It's for child pornography.
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20. 2018-03-06 at 9:08 PM UTC

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    The Self Taught Man Black Hole
    I wish I had the money to make thermite packs for hard drives. They'd sell like crazy on niggasin.