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I'm not totally up to speed on encryption techniques, but it looks like this makes it somewhat obvious that you have encrypted files on your machine by mapping

by RexM 12y ago

I'm not totally up to speed on encryption techniques, but it looks like this makes it somewhat obvious that you have encrypted files on your machine by mapping a new encrypted file 1 for 1 to the files that you're storing. In this case, wouldn't you lose plausible deniability? If I remember there's a feature in TrueCrypt which allows you to have two passwords, a fake password that you could use if questioned that decrypts a portion of the volume, and the real password that decrypts the entire thing. I maybe conflating two separate things, though.

rian 12y ago
You're correct. If you want plausible deniability, you should definitely use TrueCrypt. Safe was not meant for this. Safe is mainly for making it difficult for casual snoopers to view your data. For instance, if your computer or external hard drive gets stolen. Safe and TrueCrypt form an ecosystem of encryption tools. Safe is a bit more user-friendly but it's for casual use. For special circumstances TrueCrypt is a better tool. Compare butter knife to swiss army knife.