Collecting TrueCrypt forks and alternatives
The basic idea of pretty Easy privacy includes using a crypto container for your volume. This is not a big deal if you're using a BSD- or Linux-Desktop, MacOS X or one of the “professional” or “enterprise” versions of Windows. Because all of these operating systems bring a crypto container with them. You just need to enable it, and it's up and running. It's there with new Android and iOS versions as well.
On the other hand this can be still an issue if you're using Windows Home edition. Therefore p≡p decided to support TrueCrypt. Unfortunately this project faded away.
What is left is a small list of TrueCrypt forks. They're in detail:
https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/ Veracrypt offered a new version on Sun Aug 9, 2015. Looks like they're maintaining it actively.
https://ciphershed.org/ CipherShed looks good at first sight as well.
https://truecrypt.ch/ TCnext seems to deploy just the old TrueCrypt versions. I cannot see any development here.
Alternatives include:
https://diskcryptor.net/ DiskCryptor can encrypt the system partition, too.
https://vgough.github.io/encfs/ EncFS can probably not be used to encrypt the system partition. It could be an option to encrypt home directories and profiles, though.
Do you know other alternatives, which are well maintained? Or do you want to share your experience with us? Then please send us a mail!
published Sat, 12 Sep 2015 19:35:55 +0200 #cryptocontainer #p≡p #truecrypt