(15-08-2013, 10:54 PM)NeoTerra Wrote: Honestly these days sometimes physical security is better. Need something stored that is *absolutely* confidential? Print it out, seal it in a plastic tube, and bury it somewhere with GPS coordinates. No one will ever find that if you know what you're doing.

Then again if you're going to be tortured for your data, you might as well forget it, because you're basically fucked.

You could try the multi-layer approach: Encrypt the hard drive with AES 256, and inside of that use Truecrypt hidden volumes.