Bob BIlly

Anyone know? :D

What was incorrect? Do you not just favorite a volume, set it to auto-mount, and then it mounts every time the computer starts? Would that not make it pretty convenient to a thief, however? All of the mounting information needed is right there in the open unless your system is encrypted too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbJKUEUXWVo

What was incorrect? Do you not just favorite a volume, set it to auto-mount, and then it mounts every time the computer starts? Would that not make it pretty convenient to a thief, however? All of the mounting information needed is right there in the open. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbJKUEUXWVo

I've never used these features myself, but you may be able to mount all volumes on system boot... but i'd imagine it would save the passwords or key(s) in plaintext on the HDD, which makes you vulnerable if someone steals your HDD or the whole computer. Another alternative may be to mount each volume and then "favorite" them. You can then "mount favorites". Perhaps it lets you mount them all at once? Again, I haven't tried this feature so I'm not too sure how it works. Perhaps you could create a...

When I mount my volume, and then check the Volume Properties, it says that the value for "PKCS-5 PRF" is "HMAC-SHA-512 (Dynamic)". I know that I am using the hash algorithm of SHA-512, but what is this "dynamic" part? I don't see it on my Whirlpool volume. It just says "HMAC-Whirlpool". Is it because the hash output is truncated for SHA-512?

However, the above links were discussing changing the password length from 64 to 128 which was going to double the wait time to mount a volume for SHA-256, Whirlpool and RIPEMD-160. Couldn't the password length determine how many times the compression is done? Over 64 characters and it's done twice. Under 64 and it's done once.

Nice. Thank you for the help. Has put my mind at ease.