2/12/2023 0 Comments Truecrypt alternative 2015On 2 April, Matthew Green, research professor at Johns Hopkins University, reported that “based on this audit, TrueCrypt appears to be a relatively well-designed piece of crypto software. However, the TrueCrypt code has now been audited by the independent NCC Group, using crowdsourced funds. Even today, nobody outside TrueCrypt knows what happened. This came just after Edward Snowden’s revelations, so there was a lot of speculation about backdoors, US government pressure, and so on. The unknown developers decided to quit, and changed their home page to say: “WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.” The page then explained how to switch to Microsoft’s BitLocker. TrueCrypt was the most popular encryption program for Windows PCs but, as you know, it closed down last year under very odd circumstances. Microsoft offers BitLocker but that’s only available with the Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Windows 7, and it looks as though I need a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, which my old motherboards don’t have. I haven’t encrypted a complete hard drive. I use the File Container approach, which is all I need and is easy to use. What can you recommend instead of TrueCrypt, which I use for encrypting passwords and personal data.
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