On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 09:38:01 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
If you get TrueCrypt, do NOT get it from the old Sourceforge site. When
the authors abandoned the program (or were forced to leave after
deciding not to get forced into adding a backdoor by the US gov't), they
crippled TC so it was read-only. You could used the last version to
mount and read previously created TC containers but not created new
ones. The last full-featured version of Truecrypt was 7.1a. There are
newer variants of Truecrypt, like Veracrypt (also free).

I've been using VeraCrypt for several years, and I recommend it. It
can read and write TrueCrypt volumes, but it can't create TrueCrypt
volumes. I don't know the technical details of the differences
between a TrueCrypt volume and a VeraCrypt volume, but I imagine they
include a fix for the security hole that was found in TrueCrypt when
its code was audited.

Wikipedia seems to disagree with my memory about a security hole
being found in audit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truecrypt
Probably Wikipedia is right and I'm wrong. Maybe I have a distorted
memory of the anonymous TrueCrypt authors' claim that TrueCrypt
contained security problems.

Anyway, VeraCrypt works like TrueCrypt, and it's free.

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