DrKK
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Are you asking: Can a Truecrypt encrypted volume/container contain, within it, another truecrypt volume, so that decrypting the outside one merely gives access to the still-encrypted inside container?
Yes, of course you can do that. A file is a file. This is how, for example, I keep all of my passwords...I have a truecrypt volume for my Thunderbird profile, and in addition to storing the profile, it also has a truecrypt volume pw.tc within it that holds my passwords.
It is also possible in truecrypt to have "hidden" volumes/containers within an encrypted volume/container. In the original case I described above, people could see that you have another encrypted container in there. If you care about that, you can use the "hidden" functionalities in Truecrypt. It's all in the docs, but using a hidden truecrypt partition is a level of paranoia that does not even remotely approach sanity for 99.99992% of users.
Yes, of course you can do that. A file is a file. This is how, for example, I keep all of my passwords...I have a truecrypt volume for my Thunderbird profile, and in addition to storing the profile, it also has a truecrypt volume pw.tc within it that holds my passwords.
It is also possible in truecrypt to have "hidden" volumes/containers within an encrypted volume/container. In the original case I described above, people could see that you have another encrypted container in there. If you care about that, you can use the "hidden" functionalities in Truecrypt. It's all in the docs, but using a hidden truecrypt partition is a level of paranoia that does not even remotely approach sanity for 99.99992% of users.