Is there an alternative to truecrypt?

[SFR]

RE: TrueCrypt is dead

I think it's best to wait a few months with final conclusions, until the Phase II of the Audit will be completed.

Personally, I don't see any reasonable replacement for TC, considering things like:
- Free and Open Source
- cross-platform
- full-disk/partition/container encryption
- cascade encryption
- plausible deniability

The best I can think of is LUKS/dm-crypt (cryptsetup) on Lin + FreeOTFE to access it on Win (dunno what about Mac?), but it would be a PITA to use, at least in comparison to TC.
And tc-play seems to be only for Linux and DragonFly BSD.

Btw, GRC is now hosting the latest "normal" release of TC (v7.1a):
https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
and I'm sure others will take over the baton, maybe them:
http://truecrypt.ch/
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How much is it safe to use a heavy encrypted savefile mounted by filemnt in every puppy to put resereved data in it?

Cryptoloop is deprecated and vulnerable:

Cryptoloop is vulnerable to watermarking attacks,[1] making it possible to determine presence of watermarked data on the encrypted filesystem

Also, see here: https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... issues/146
I hope it will be eventually implemented (FatDog already has it)...
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@Sfs: How (and where) did you compile tcplay?
In Slacko-5.7.0, I was having problems at './configure' stage with "missing" uuid.h file, until I compiled and installed the latest libuuid-1.0.2 and the problem's gone.
Exactly the same happend while compiling cryptsetup.
Thanks.

Greetings!

[slavvo67]

http://m.softpedia.com/truecrypt-not-de ... 44447.html

[watchdog]

I think cryptography will not be ever quite safe. If you have the right calculation power you can decrypt every code by statistical methods. Militaries had said to send important orders by paper mails in warfare circumstances. New York's Police bought mechanic typewriters.

[slavvo67]

Watchdog:

I think you're right. There is no true answer.

I will say though, it is still common for thieves to get vital information by going through your paper trash. Perhaps, still the most common threat to security.

Best,

Slavvo67

[RetroTechGuy]

Is there an alternative to truecrypt for Windows and Linux?

Back before I migrated to Truecrypt, I used Scramdisk (under Win98).

There is a Linux project:

http://sd4l.sourceforge.net/

Though if Truecrypt is compromised, those volumes are suspect.

I thought that it supported several volume types...

[watchdog]

https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm

[Teh Agnostic Anarco]

You should worry more about securing your network then encrypting any drive..... You can hide something in a drawer but that doesnt mean they cant "add" things you didnt know about to your drawer.... if you catch my analogy...