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This question has been in my head for a while now. If you use a disk encryption product either to encrypt a partition or the whole hard drive would you be able to not give the pass phrase to a border guard or immigration. Well a new story in the states is starting to look like it will answer my question.
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OK I always chickened out of creating a key in Linux as it is so easy in windows using PuTTYgen. But one day I decided to find out exactly how to do it in Linux and “Oh My God” it is even easier. I mean really simple. So simple that I was shocked and thought I had to of got this wrong.

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PGP’s Netshare product which encrypts windows folders and files has a limit on it that for some companies be a pain in the backside. Basically you can allow a group of users to all be able to encrypt and decrypt files and folders but if that group for a certain folder is over 50 PGP errors. There is a good reason for this error as if this is higher and you use PGP Universal to proxy your mail too it can slow down mail by a significant amount. But, if your company only uses PGP Universal to manage Netshare you can increase this number by quite a bit. I have personally increased this to 300 users and had no issues (touch wood).
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