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Topic: Best Software or way to Encrypt your flash drive (Read 793 times)

legendary
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Truecrypt was a good software.

Was? What happened to it now?
A group of researchers have done an audit but have not found any significant exploits. Everything seemed fine until thr developer took off under mysterious circumstances.
He left leaving a message saying that prople should unistall because of security exploits. However, there are a few alternatives that are good too.
hero member
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I prefer Zakir over Muhammed when mentioning me!
Truecrypt was a good software.

Was? What happened to it now?
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Truecrypt was a good software.
sr. member
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What are the advantages of using such software? Genuinely asking.

Um... to encrypt your data. Some people don't want others to have access to their private shit. Maybe he wants to doubly encrypt his bitcoins as well.
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Use bitlocker or diskcryptor with 30 characters (combintion of digits, lower case, upper case, space and special characters).
But I don't know whether a government agent or NASA could break it up or not.


~Rude Boy

Yeah I have heard about Bitlocker. But not sure how much safe is it,incase someone from the security or government agencies get the data


Some people already can hack Bitlocer, it's no longer effective
Only truecrypt with strong password is the solution
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What are the advantages of using such software? Genuinely asking.
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diskcryptor
legendary
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Use bitlocker or diskcryptor with 30 characters (combintion of digits, lower case, upper case, space and special characters).
But I don't know whether a government agent or NASA could break it up or not.


~Rude Boy
Bitlocker is a no. If one is encrypt data on a flash drive, instead of just hiding it, he/she probably has a really good reason to do so. Bitlocker is decent, and it's main problem is the integration with Windows.
http://blog.alertsec.com/2010/01/breaking-into-bitlocker/

OP I would highly recommend that you do the procedure right each time (mounting and safely demounting your flash drive).
Read: http://www.techworld.com/news/security/bitlocker-pgp-truecrypt-encryption-weakened-by-new-attack-tool-3418189/
I'm not sure if this is true or not, as you'd have to do some research yourself. Although I'd rather be safe than sorry.
legendary
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Truecrypt is still great software was long as you have the version before it was made not functional.
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Truecrypt was recommended by Snowden but the devs stopped working on it after he recommended it.
newbie
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Use bitlocker or diskcryptor with 30 characters (combintion of digits, lower case, upper case, space and special characters).
But I don't know whether a government agent or NASA could break it up or not.


~Rude Boy

Yeah I have heard about Bitlocker. But not sure how much safe is it,incase someone from the security or government agencies get the data
hero member
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Use bitlocker or diskcryptor with 30 characters (combintion of digits, lower case, upper case, space and special characters).
But I don't know whether a government agent or NASA could break it up or not.


~Rude Boy
newbie
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ANyone has suggestions for the best softwares or ways to encrypt flash drives ? I wish to store data on it with an ecryption that not even the government agents or NSA could break into .
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