Hide your bots/model editing programs via encryption

[zarith]

Hello all, i know ive been a leecher for a LONG time now, but ive finally found something i can contribute without it being a repost (atleast i dont think it is), sooo, lets begin


Today we're going to be encrypting your sensitive WoW files to hide them from warden, so blizz doesnt find them while they arent running when scanning your hard drive. We are going to be using a program called TrueCrypt (open source and free, found at TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux )


STEP 1.



Click on create volume (simple enough eh?)


STEP 2.



Select "Create Standard TrueCrypt Volume" (hidden might be applicable, but this guide will focus on standard volumes)


STEP 3.



Select where you want to put the encrypted folder, mine is named wowtest for the purpose of this guide, you should probally name it something non-wow related, just to be safe


STEP 4.



Dont worry about the encryption types here, for this purpose a higher encryption doesnt really mean too much


STEP 5.



Choose how big you would like your volume to be, (remember it is in megabytes, so if you want it to be 1gig, then make it 1000 megabytes like in the screenshot)


STEP 6.



Setup a password here, if its below 20 characters you will get a warning saying its easy to brute force such a password, dont worry about that as we're not worried about these folders being hacked by a person.


Step 7.



At this screen you will notice that as you move your mouse the string of numbers in the random pool gets longer, this is to make your encryption much tougher, not much of a worry for us, just press Format at this screen.


Step 8.



just let it format here, shouldnt take too long.


Step 9.



At this point you want to click "Select File" and find the volume you just created, then highlight the drive letter you would like, and press "Mount"


Step 10.



Enter the password that you selected before here.


Step 11.

(no screenshot here)

Go to My Computer and you should see a new drive with the letter that you just choose to mount the encrypted file onto, double click on that and you are browsing your encrypted folder.


TO DISMOUNT.

just go into truecrypt and press "dismount all" and boom, nobody can see those files except people who know the password, effectively hiding glider and other such programs from warden (you can also hide ..*cough* OTHER files in there if you know what i mean )


Sorry 56k users for the mass amount of pictures, just wanted to make it easy for you guys to understand it all :P

Thank you for reading.

[Dreadroth]

wow. very thorough on the tut.

im gonna download it and use that ^.^ been looking for something easy to use :P Thanks

[Solemn1234]

EDIT: Btw can anyone confirm how effective this is?

cheers!
+rep

[natt_]

yeah but i think it still showing this in the taskmanager ;O?

[nrk666]

As a user of Truecrypt and programs like it for years, I can tell you that this guide is WORTHLESS for encrypting things against Warden. It is however a decent guide on how to use Truecrypt.

Truecrypt encrypts a container full of files, this is true, but once you mount it to run the program, you have to supply the key which then decrypts it for windows usage. (ie, as far as windows and software is concerned, it is DECRYPTED.)

Truecrypt is only useful for file encryption if the container is NOT MOUNTED.


Nice try, but you are just wrong.

[zarith]

nrk666, if you'll notice i said it was for hiding folders when they're not in use, say you want to play legitly but you have glider on your hard drive somewhere, so its used to encrypt them when they're not in use

[Treekatoris]

does it really woark??

[nrk666]

nrk666, if you'll notice i said it was for hiding folders when they're not in use, say you want to play legitly but you have glider on your hard drive somewhere, so its used to encrypt them when they're not in use

Use a zipfile then, it would be 10x easier.

Guide for using WinZip to do the exact same thing as OP:

1. Install Winzip (most of you probably have this already)
2. Select "hax" folder
3. right click
4. Add to "hax.zip"
5. delete folder hax
6. done.

If you want to "encrypt" it, use a password with winzip.

OR, you can use a bazooka to kill a mosquito.

[zarith]

ok how about instead of arguing, you go out and contribute something to the forums eh?

[Netzgeist]

Im sorry to say this but this is completely worthless ;(
Its true that truecrypt completely encrypts data with aes-algo, BUT at the moment you mount a virtual volume, all accesed gets live-decrypted using your private key. If not, you couldnt access your files

[nrk666]

ok how about instead of arguing, you go out and contribute something to the forums eh?

Debunking useless guides is my contribution.

[zarith]

sorry, you dont get that privilege until you actually write a guide

[Phoen!x]

Amazing, but you still can be detect :>

[nrk666]

sorry, you dont get that privilege until you actually write a guide

Oh, so writing a guide is a pre-requisite? If you will see my above post where I "wrote a guide" to do the EXACT same thing your 11 step, 10 screen shot guide does in 5 steps, you will find that I have met your requirement.

I'd be willing to concede that even if that doesn't constitute "writing a guide" that it at least takes your "guide" and heavily optimizes it for the casual user, providing the exact same functionality as yours.

Face it, you slapped together a guide on something that only a small niche of users use, used a ton of screen shots to flush it out to garner rep, when the whole time the same thing can be done using commonly available tools by the most casual user and almost qualifies as "DUH!" type information. I called you out on it. Either defend your guide or do better next time.

Debunking bad guides is at least more useful than "REPOST!#$^!@!!".

[Apoc]

This is basically the same shit as any zipped folder. The only difference is.... well... there is no real difference.