{"id":1336,"date":"2010-09-03T03:02:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T10:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2010-09-03T03:02:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T10:02:20","slug":"mounting-a-truecrypt-partition-on-mac-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2010\/09\/mounting-a-truecrypt-partition-on-mac-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Mounting a TrueCrypt Partition on Mac OS"},"content":{"rendered":"

When an entire volume has been encrypted by TrueCrypt, it looks like an uninitialized drive to Mac OS. A dialog box will pop up, asking if you want to initialize (format) the drive. Click ignore<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Next, run TrueCrypt. If TrueCrypt is already running, open its main window. Click ‘select device’.<\/p>\n

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TrueCrypt will prompt you for your administrator password. This is your regular login password. Note that if you don’t have administrative rights, you can’t mount an encrypted volume.<\/p>\n

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Next, select the encrypted disk from the list of drives. In this example, it’s a 60 gigabyte external harddrive, so I select the drive reported as 55.9 GB.<\/p>\n

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You are now returned to TrueCrypt’s main window. Click ‘Mount’ in the bottom, left corner.<\/p>\n

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TrueCrypt will now prompt for the volume password. This is the password used to encrypt the disk.<\/p>\n

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The volume is now mounted. You may close the TrueCrypt main window and continue to access the encrypted disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When an entire volume has been encrypted by TrueCrypt, it looks like an uninitialized drive to Mac OS. A dialog box will pop up, asking if you want to initialize (format) the drive. Click ignore. Next, run TrueCrypt. If TrueCrypt … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,270,284,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptography","category-osx","category-security","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}