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Alternative for TrueCrypt?

dalekphalm

Hey guys,

 

I currently still use TrueCrypt as my drive/file encryption tool for sensitive data. However, there's been a lot of controversy surrounding it, and implication that it might be compromised. Can anyone recommend an alternative that meets these requirements:

- Free

- Ability to encrypt an entire drive/volume

- Ability to create a virtual encrypted drive (file container) that can be assigned a drive letter when decrypted, that only shows up when decrypted (Like in TrueCrypt when you decrypt a TC file and select a drive letter to mount it to)

- Ability to set my own level of encryption based on how high I want the security and/or how long my password/key is

- [EDIT] Must run on Windows 7 and 8

 

I've been doing some Googling, and came across Diskcryptor. I'm reading a review on it now to see if it'll meet my requirements. Anyone have any suggestions?

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LUKS + LVM.

Sorry, I forgot to mention in my OP - must run on Windows 7 and Windows 8. I'm not installing, VMing, or dual-booting linux just to get some useful drive encryption tools.

 

Also, no offense but your post is not incredibly useful, because if I don't know what LUKS + LVM means (which I don't because I haven't used Linux seriously since College), then I have no idea what you're talking about. You're not posting any links to useful information, or any justification for why LUKS + LVM is a good/better solution then something else. Please flesh out your post a little more for it to be of any use what so ever. Also if I was a complete newb to power user computing, then I would not likely be able to figure it out on my own just based on what you've wrote.

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OpenBSD...

 

JK I'm not sure. TrueCrypt may still be safe though, it's just not GUARANTEED to be safe anymore. It's like the OpenSSL of drive encryption software.

 

Wait, that's a terrible comparison. Nobody would want the OpenSSL of drive encryption software :D

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OpenBSD...

 

JK I'm not sure. TrueCrypt may still be safe though, it's just not GUARANTEED to be safe anymore. It's like the OpenSSL of drive encryption software.

 

Wait, that's a terrible comparison. Nobody would want the OpenSSL of drive encryption software :D

Haha yeah I've read that the open source audit of ver. 7.1 has finished phase one with no vulnerabilities detected. If it passes the full audit, then I'll likely keep using it, but I have no idea how long that will take.

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Haha yeah I've read that the open source audit of ver. 7.1 has finished phase one with no vulnerabilities detected. If it passes the full audit, then I'll likely keep using it, but I have no idea how long that will take.

I'd just keep using it.

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TrueCrypt is fine, the devs just got lazy and gave up.

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TrueCrypt is fine, the devs just got lazy and gave up.

I don't know how you can possibly say that. The whole reason that TrueCrypt is having an open source community audit of it's code is because organizations like the NSA were found to be behind - in part - the program. That means backdoors could have been slipped in, or the encryption they use cracked and made useless.

 

It's MOST LIKELY fine. But we won't actually know until the audit of the source code is completed.

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