[Lincs] Truecrypt

[Mick Sulley]

Things may not be as bad as they look at first.  Have a read through this -
https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm

Mick

On 02/06/14 19:10, Jon Spriggs wrote:
>
> You might take a look at encfs which is a fuse module for Linux. I 
> don't believe there is a windows port but I might be wrong. Commercial 
> grade, there is PGP by Symantec which offers PGP disks and whole disk 
> encryption.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon The Nice Guy
>
> On 2 Jun 2014 18:13, "iain Baker" <iain.dbaker at gmail.com 
> <mailto:iain.dbaker at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Good question...
>     The only 'big name' i can think of off the top of my head is GPG
>     https://www.gnupg.org/
>
>
>     On 30 May 2014 21:27, Dave Rice <dave at ricey.co.uk
>     <mailto:dave at ricey.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>         I'm not using it at the moment, but I have used it.
>
>         What are or options now for encryption?
>
>         Particularly for removable devices??
>
>         Cheers
>
>         On 30 May 2014 21:06, "iain Baker" <iain.dbaker at gmail.com
>         <mailto:iain.dbaker at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             In case anyone hasn't heard about it, there seems to have
>             been some
>             significant event within or regarding the Truecrypt
>             development team.
>
>             Their Sourceforge site now states:
>
>             "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain
>             unfixed security
>             issues
>
>             This page exists only to help migrate existing data
>             encrypted by TrueCrypt.
>
>             The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after
>             Microsoft
>             terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and
>             later offer
>             integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk
>             images. Such
>             integrated support is also available on other platforms
>             (click here for
>             more information). You should migrate any data encrypted
>             by TrueCrypt to
>             encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your
>             platform."
>
>
>             You can read more at The Register:
>             http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/29/truecrypt_analysis/
>
>             Basically, the latest release of the software will not
>             encrypt and instead
>             gives a warning to use other software for encryption.  If
>             you are using
>             earlier versions of the software, it maybe advisable to
>             migrate to another
>             solution until things become clearer (and to know that you
>             are using
>             software that will continue to receive security updates).
>
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