User friendly encryption software?

[Dragon2hand]

As you can tell from the title i'm looking for user friendly encryption software that the community suggests that actually works. Not only is it user friendly but actually does protect my sensitive data.

Please list the software from best encryption to least respectively. 

[willielikesmonkeys]

A piece of software this complex isn't meant to be "User Friendly"

 

But in my experience TrueCrypt is the only one worth using and it's easy enough to use once you teach employees how to use it. 

 

PLUS it's cross platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows.)

 

http://www.truecrypt.org/

 

also it's free and open source.

[NaftaLord]

For encrypted containers and disk encryption TrueCrypt works well.

For files AxCrypt and 7zip will do the job.

 

And plus is that they are all open source.

[LAwLz]

As the other ones have suggested, Truecrypt might be good. It is worth noting that there has never been a true security audit for Truecrypt, and there are some very strange things about it (doesn't act the same on Windows as on GNU/Linux, pretty much impossible to compile the source so that it matches the precompiled installer, and so on).

There is a massive audit of Truecrypt being done though, so hopefully we will know if the source code (read: no guarantee that the precompiled installer is the same as the source code) is secure soon (maybe like a year).

Truecrypt is pretty easy to use if you know the basic stuff about encryption. It also has a handy guide in case you don't (read it carefully or you will probably mess up somewhere). Also, there is no false safe. If you for some reason forget the password it will be lost forever, so make sure you got a secure password and make sure you will never forget it.

 

 

That's for files though. There might be a better program for you depending on what you want to encrypt.

[rcarlos243]

Trucrypt ftw