TrueCrypt is dead, what should I use now?

[Duo8]

As the title says. TrueCrypt is no longer supported, so what should I use to encrypt my backups?

 

[Costello]

what is your OS ? Windows ? Linux ?

if it's Linux, I'd create a LUKS partition, with a passphrase or an external key.
it's pretty easy, I just did it a few minutes ago actually.

 

[Duo8]

I'm using Windows.

 

[yusuo]

I use AxCrypt on Windows its good, free and integrates into windows within the right click menu.

 

[Flame]

i dont believe in conspiracy theories..


but all of a sudden...something is fishy... did NSA have something to do with this.

 

[Duo8]

i dont believe in conspiracy theories..


but all of a sudden...something is fishy... did NSA have something to do with this.

 

[Arras]

Can't you just follow the instructions on http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ and use BitLocker? Comes built in with Windows nowadays.

 

[Duo8]

Can't you just follow the instructions on http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ and use BitLocker? Comes built in with Windows nowadays.

I just did that actually. Gonna stick with this for sometime but I'll eventually have to find something that's cross-platform.

 

[FAST6191]

Can't you just follow the instructions on http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ and use BitLocker? Comes built in with Windows nowadays.

I thought bitlocker was only available for the big boy flavours of windows (ultimate and enterprise for 7, pro or enterprise for 8).

 

[migles]

doesn't bitlocker have backdoors for MS$?

 

[Duo8]

I thought bitlocker was only available for the big boy flavours of windows (ultimate and enterprise for 7, pro or enterprise for 8).

That's true.
But who pay for Windows anyway?

 

[Pleng]

Trucrypt is no longer supported.... ok I get that. But is it going to stop working overnight? Or is there some reason to believe it's not as secure as everybody previously thought??

 

[DinohScene]

Stop downloading illegal porno.

In all seriousness, just get an old version of Truecrypt.
Nothing that stops you from using it.

 

[Jayro]

That feel, when OP doesn't research hard enough...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/TrueCrypt-Not-Dead-Forked-and-Relocated-to-Switzerland-444447.shtml

 

[JaapDaniels]

better look at https://truecrypt.ch/ it's not really progressing but that's because they are new to the source code it seeems

 

[dauphin327]

Symantec Encryption Desktop for Windows is pretty good, I use it for full drive encryption. Take a look at it. http://www.symantec.com/en/ca/encryption-desktop-pro