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schestowitzMay 26, 2007
This is awesome."In the near future the developers of TrueCrypt are planning to extend its features: * the MAC OS version, ..."By "portable", they can't brag full cross-platform-ity just yet, but at least it's something you can control, unlike closed-source DRM and undocumented binary rubbish.
stormmindMay 27, 2007
Gawtmilk:No it is not about the key. Read this, or it's you who'll seem ignorant.<a class="user" href="http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html">http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html</a>
diggcamrMay 27, 2007
In terms of the post by "DrFriendly," speaking as a health law attorney I can say that numerous clients (mainly hospitals) use enterprise versions of PGP to secure protected health information. I know I'm sounding like a salesman here (and I assure you I have zero affiliation with the vendors I'm mentioning), but the ability to use "Keys" instead of simply pass-phrases for security needs has simply been a Godsend (my personal favorite feature is to have your "Key(s)" on secure "tokens" such as the Aladdin eToken Pro); a feature that both the commercial and open source versions of PGP really have cornered the market on.Personally, I have about 80% of my client hospitals utilizing PGP Desktop 9.6.1 with enterprise wide policies being managed via a PGP Universal Server. No, PHI could of course leak out but I can say that my home PC, work PC, and notebooks utilize whole disk encryption (protecting against loss or theft of the drive) and NetShare (protecting data at the file level); thus, all information is encrypted *twice*. As far as TrueCrypt is concerned, I actually use it in conjunction with PGP because I don't really like to put all my eggs in one basket when it comes to protecting the privacy of both my corporate clients as well as the individual patients who, ultimately, are my *real* clients. In particular, there are a series of TrueCrypt volumes I use for storing various private data (this is layered on top of an already fully encrypted drive via PGP whole disk encryption). In closing, I must say that if you're in med school right now (I did a combined JD/MD so I feel your pain), I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see someone concerned enough to truly protect the private health information of their patients. It disturbs me to no end when clients/hospitals/physician practices ask me, "what is the cheapest and easiest way to legally be in compliance?" Of course the real question should be, "Teach me what the legal requirement is so that I understand how to build a system that exponentially *exceeds* the statutory requirement."
tolerantMay 27, 2007
I have been using encfs (<a class="user" href="http://arg0.net/encfs)">http://arg0.net/encfs)</a> for some time and it is great. While providing similar capabilities, it is based on the FUSE (<a class="user" href="http://fuse.sourceforge.net/)">http://fuse.sourceforge.net/)</a> userspace filesystem.
chewie67May 27, 2007
@egorgy - "The osx version is coming. patience young grasshopper"That's nice in theory. In reality, that's been on the "future" page for the 18 months I've been watching TrueCrypt. It seems to be a "future" feature like hydrogen cars are the "future" of US auto transportation. Sure, we may get there someday, but no one seems to be putting any serious effort forth.The TrueCrypt team needs a decent OSX developer to volunteer time to make this happen. Thus far I guess that hasn't happened.Too bad, because TrueCrypt is awesome.
auniquenameMay 27, 2007
It would be great if Truecrypt reliably supported 8+GB containers in Ubuntu Linux 7.04. I tried formatting a 10GB container with ext3 in Ubuntu Linux 7.04 and linux completely freezes up (as in mouse freezes, can't CTRL ALT Backspace to kill X and can't switch to the terminals with CTRL ALT F1 through F6 to get to a console) during the formatting every single time I try to format the container.
hangenderMay 27, 2007
NOOO! NOW everyone knows how to use it! OMFG keep this a secret jeeze, I bet even the NSA use this stuff.
nonsecuMay 27, 2007
One very important (and useful) aspect of TrueCrypt that the article did not mention is that Truecrypt containers are "rsyncable".That is to say, because of the internal structure of a truecrypt file, if you upload one with rsync, and then mount it, make changes, unmount it and then upload it again, rsync _will not_ resend the entire file again, as it normally does with files encrypted with gpg, etc. Truecrypt only changes the portions of the file that require changing (based on your activity) which means that rsync can efficiently upload the truecrypt file.I created an 80 GB truecrypt container locally, and every week or so I unmount it, transfer it to my <a class="user" href="http://www.rsync.net">http://www.rsync.net</a> (offsite backup) account (with rsync) and then remount it. I use the --partial and --inplace options, and it works like a charm. Generally transfers 2-3 GB each time, depending on how much work I did that week ...
duel007May 27, 2007
truecrypt is great, but ive noticed that video files lose frames / parts of the video after a while.
karamba_kidJun 1, 2007
Just look in the swap/pagefile space for the valuable information.