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Wednesday, August 25, 2004

TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Encryption for Windows

TrueCrypt (via TinyApps.org) sounds pretty awesome:

* It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a real disk.
* It can encrypt an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB memory stick, floppy disk, etc.
* It is the only free open-source on-the-fly encryption software that fully supports Windows XP.
* It is also the only free open-source OTFE software for Windows XP that provides plausible deniability.
* Encryption algorithms: AES (256-bit key), Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST, IDEA, Triple DES

What scares me about using encrypted disk stuff is that if I ever forget the password there's no way I can ever recover the data.

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If you read carefully, you will find out that it is possible to backup the header of the encrypted volume before assigning a password, and store that header-file on an external device. So whenever you forget you password, you just retrieve the header-file, and reset the password with it.

Otherwise it would be really scary, not few OTFE-products do that. Think about an employee, who refuses to tell the password of confidential data, or just dies.

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