Useful Freeware

TrueCrypt – on the fly encryption

TrueCrypt helps you to create and operate an encrypted file, which you can mount as a volume (data storage device) on your computer. In other words you can create the encrypted file and mount it as a drive letter and it behaves as yet another hard drive on your computer. The beauty of it is that you can copy files to and from it like between normal drives on your computer.

Here are some feature highlights:

• Files are automatically encrypted and decrypted on the fly;
• The entire filesystem is encrypted (file allocation table, files, directories, etc.);
• Never saves any unencrypted data to a disk;
• Support for “hidden” volumes. It is a encrypted volume inside an encrypted volume, but you need to know the volume name and the password before you can access it. It is not visible otherwise.
• Support for multiple encryption algorithms (AES, Serpent, Twofish) and even a cascading combination of them;
• It can prepare for you a CD/DVD volume, so you can use it as a read-only encrypted medium;
• Format, encrypt and use a normal hard drive partition as well as a file as a TrueCrypt encrypted volume. It can even encrypt an entire USB drive. Sweet!

Overall an extremely useful program.

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