Anyone Using TrueCrypt?
By willfe
@willfe (149)
United States
March 21, 2007 7:04am CST
It's supposed to be an open-source (free as in speech and as in beer), transparent encryption system that provides encrypted virtual disks -- mount it with the right key/passphrase and you get your data; unmount it and the file (or disk) just contains garbled nonsense.
Anyone here have any experience with it? Is it reliable? Fast? Easy to work with? Or does it flake out, lose data, or take forever to get set up?
There's a slashdot article about it: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/233227
And the project's own site: http://www.truecrypt.org/
Any opinions? I'm eager to hear 'em :)
2 responses
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
21 Mar 07
There is a lot of rave about this free program. Made many tops so I think you can go try. I myself have been using Finecrypt for ages and ages. For encrypting files, it has worked very well for me. So when I heard about TrueCrypt later on, I see no need to try - since what I have already is working fabulously.
@willfe (149)
• United States
22 Mar 07
Are you running Linux or Windows? Does the mounted volume behave properly (as far as speed goes) or is it sluggish? At the risk of prying too much (this *is* encrypted data after all :)) are you just encrypting small text files or large binaries as well?
I still think I'll just need to sit down and experiment with this beast to see how it works :)
@blueman (16509)
• India
21 Mar 07
haven't used them as no other user uses my pc without me so i do not need them but seems like a good tool try.