File Encryption Ramblings
So I’m getting started on my taxes tonight and I’ve found this big hole in my record keeping strategy. I use Truecrypt to protect my financial data separately from all my other data. As various forms arrive in the mail throughout the year, I scan them to PDFs and save them in the Truecrypt volume. Now as I’m searching through the documents some of the PDFs are corrupted. Not sure how that happened, or how to fix it because the Repair Filesystem feature couldn’t find anything wrong with the Truecrypt volume. Luckily, the corrupted forms don’t seem to be critical, but it could’ve been otherwise.
So now I’m backing up the unencrypted data with EMC Retrospect. The Retrospect backup has its own AES encryption system built in.
But, the question I’m grappling with is how far to trust encryption systems with critical data. I could (and probably will for the forseeable future) replicate data between two independant file encryption systems just so that if one fails I still have a hopefully intact backup.
Has anyone else run into this kind of a problem?
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