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On a slightly related question, what are you guys using instead of Truecrypt for virtual encripted disks? I use a bit of confidential data for research, and ke
by zzleeper 11y ago
On a slightly related question, what are you guys using instead of Truecrypt for virtual encripted disks?
I use a bit of confidential data for research, and keep the identifiers on a TC container, but since it is no longer maintained I wonder when will it stop working and if VeraCrypt/CipherShed are good or not. I don't access the data that often, so speed is not that big of a deal, but the ability to cover my back is always good (e.g. say "I used XYZ which was deemed as the best free alternative at the time")
- RandalSchwartz 11y agoVeraCrypt is being very actively developed, including fixing a number of bugs that were found in TrueCrypt. Watch my interview with the main developer here, including some analysis of the code showing that perhaps different people worked on it over different time periods: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/340 https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/340
- dmix 11y agogrugq made a nice list of alternatives to Truecrypt [1]. I also personally use Tomb [2] containers and dmcrypt/luks [3] for full-disk encryption on both Linux and Android. [1] http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/60464139008/alternative-truecrypt-implementations http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/60464139008/alternative-truecry... [2] https://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/ https://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/ [3] Setting up Archlinux with dmcrypt/luks only takes a few extra minutes during install: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_... and Android uses dmcrypt when encryption is enabled.