TrueCrypt - Disk Encryption Software - OPINIONS?

I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
http://www.truecrypt.org/

Anyone tried this? Opinions?



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On 1/25/2012 5:04 AM PT, Tecknomage typed:

> I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>
> Anyone tried this? Opinions?

It's awesome. Others and I use it (its container feature) for sensitive
datas. It's popular and free (donations) too. Also, it is cross platform
compatible with Mac OS X and Linux as well.
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>I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
>http://www.truecrypt.org/
>
>Anyone tried this? Opinions?

Good stuff, use it.

- Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:38:41 -0800, Ant <> wrote:

> On 1/25/2012 5:04 AM PT, Tecknomage typed:
>
> > I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
> > http://www.truecrypt.org/
> >
> > Anyone tried this? Opinions?
>
> It's awesome. Others and I use it (its container feature) for sensitive
> datas. It's popular and free (donations) too. Also, it is cross platform
> compatible with Mac OS X and Linux as well.
It's good missing one feature:
. support for multiple container files for one encryption disk.
There is not a good way to backup a 1TB container file over the web.

It would be much better if you could have multiple container files
for one virtual disk, similar to VMware virtual disks. (Where I
don't mind another performance hit, I make a VMware virtual disk
and put the TrueCrypt container file inside.)

I'd like to go one step further than VMware and allow for the
size of the container files to be a parameter, as, for example,
2GB might be fine for LAN backup, but not for WAN backup.

On 1/25/2012, Tecknomage posted:

> I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
> http://www.truecrypt.org/

> Anyone tried this? Opinions?

If you had crossposted instead of multiposting, the replies in all the
newsgroups would be visible in each group.

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Tecknomage wrote:

> I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>
> Anyone tried this? Opinions?

See replies to your SAME post that you separately MULTI-posted in other
newsgroups. Now you'll have to remember to which other newsgroups you
multi-posted and go check each of them for replies instead of
maintaining the discussion within a single cross-posted thread.

Learn to cross-post:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

On 1/25/2012, VanguardLH posted:
> Tecknomage wrote:

>> I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
>> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>>
>> Anyone tried this? Opinions?

> See replies to your SAME post that you separately MULTI-posted in other
> newsgroups. Now you'll have to remember to which other newsgroups you
> multi-posted and go check each of them for replies instead of
> maintaining the discussion within a single cross-posted thread.

> Learn to cross-post:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
> http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

Thanks - your remarks on cross-posting and multi-posting, complete with
links, are more helpful than my post.

Looks like it's time to copy your links so I can emulate you in the
future. (And so I did.)

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On 1/25/2012, Gene E. Bloch posted:
> On 1/25/2012, VanguardLH posted:
>> Tecknomage wrote:

>>> I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
>>> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>>>
>>> Anyone tried this? Opinions?

>> See replies to your SAME post that you separately MULTI-posted in other
>> newsgroups. Now you'll have to remember to which other newsgroups you
>> multi-posted and go check each of them for replies instead of
>> maintaining the discussion within a single cross-posted thread.

>> Learn to cross-post:

>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
>> http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
>> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

> Thanks - your remarks on cross-posting and multi-posting, complete with
> links, are more helpful than my post.

> Looks like it's time to copy your links so I can emulate you in the future.
> (And so I did.)

OTOH, the Wikipedia article says (I'll copy and paste):

"Multiposting is the preferred[by whom?] way to post the same
information to multiple channels."

That is neither what you said nor what I believe...

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On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:04:37 -0800, Tecknomage wrote:
>
> I just became aware of "TrueCrypt" - Disk Encryption Software....
> http://www.truecrypt.org/
>
> Anyone tried this? Opinions?

I love it and use it on my USB stick. I no longer worry about the
possibility of leaving it behind, with student records and other
embarrassing material.

I'm thinking of using it to encrypt my data partitions (as opposed to
C:, the programs partition) on my laptop, but I haven't made a
decision yet.

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On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:13:16 -0800, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>
> On 1/25/2012, VanguardLH posted:
> > Learn to cross-post:
>
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting
> > http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
> > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html
>
> Thanks - your remarks on cross-posting and multi-posting, complete with
> links, are more helpful than my post.
>
> Looks like it's time to copy your links so I can emulate you in the
> future. (And so I did.)

Ahem. Here's one more:
http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm
It includes crossposting, proper quoting and attributions, and more.
(Yes, I'm the author.)

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