Comments on: TrueCrypt released for MacOSX, using MacFuse http://blog.leenarts.net/2008/02/06/truecrypt-maxosx-macfuse/ Macs, Java, software development, IT related books and things I do for a living. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:32:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Honza http://blog.leenarts.net/2008/02/06/truecrypt-maxosx-macfuse/comment-page-1/#comment-77093 Honza Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:08:23 +0000 http://blog.leenarts.net/2008/02/06/truecrypt-maxosx-macfuse/#comment-77093 I know your post is a year old now, but it was the top hit in google with "macfuse truecrypt" - I just wanted to point out an incorrect statement: "Because if only one bit falls over in your encrypted disk, the entire disk will be corrupted." This is not true, at least not now. If one bit is corrupt then you will just lose the data in that block (which is maybe 128 or 256 bits long). The rest of the files in your filesystem are still OK, and even the file with the corrupted block may be recoverable. More info in the Truecrypt documentation on Truecrypt.org. I know your post is a year old now, but it was the top hit in google with “macfuse truecrypt” – I just wanted to point out an incorrect statement: “Because if only one bit falls over in your encrypted disk, the entire disk will be corrupted.”

This is not true, at least not now. If one bit is corrupt then you will just lose the data in that block (which is maybe 128 or 256 bits long). The rest of the files in your filesystem are still OK, and even the file with the corrupted block may be recoverable. More info in the Truecrypt documentation on Truecrypt.org.

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