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welcome to Linus 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'd 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 TrueCrypt basically thumbs up true kip kripp 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 screen crypt and non-system partitions flash drive is a good one as well and it has a couple slightly different steps that will show you at the end we're going to use a standard TrueCrypt volume a hidden TrueCrypt 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 it 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 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 ok so you create a volume location select a file so we're going to we have we have one that we created already as a test so this is just going to be the test 1 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 ya 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 ok 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 it 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 a limit of 64 characters but some of the strongest passwords and easiest to remember could actually be a phrase like Capitol 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 the file system that it's using so we're an 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 yay SSD and fast processors it is creating itself at around 600 megabytes per second so we'll be able to come back and well you know what Matt whatever you guys can just chill you know what's a good joke you hear the one about the actually I don't I can't think of any jokes right now you're the one about the SSD that raced 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 a live now so slicks 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 in 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 act 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 ok 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 ok yeah this oh I don't think I capitalized ok 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 disk so you can see that there are legitimate g-rated movies inside if we wanted to create a on tintin other-- encrypted volume we would just select another drive letter select a different file such as test one and click mount typing in ah 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 ok that did not fit that well so we're going to go ahead and put it in that one alright so removable disk II encrypt a non system part ok 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 one 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 disk 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 TrueCrypt 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 no it wasn't like this is a good this is a strong password we know was the remember one it was the rumble rumble is a good pet know 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 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 very important don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos