[ale] I have fallen in love with Truecrypt

Matty matty91 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 19:04:45 EST 2011


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:20 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 05:56 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> > On 02/10/2011 11:24 PM, Matty wrote:
>> > > There are very few pieces of software that I am smitten with, but
>> > > Truecrypt has just fallen into that category. I have a geek crush on
>> > > it now:;)
>> > >
>> > > http://prefetch.net/articles/truecrypt-desktop-encryption-osx-linux-windows.html
>> > >
>> > > Anyone else using it? Have you encountered any issues?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > I use ecryptfs to mount a private folder. I'm not sure I'm ready to
>> > encrypt my entire drive.
>> > and I REALLY use KeepassX !! Sometimes I open that app many times a day!
>> > & I have it on my windows box too.
>> >
>
>> I use LUKS on all my laptops, full hard drive encrypted.  Easy to carry,
>> easy to steel.  You can have the hardware, but all my bases will still
>> belong to me.
>
> Yeah, I'm required by my office to have my hard drives fully encrypted.
> For Windows, they require Enterprise PGP Desktop.  For Linux, LUKS is
> the acceptable alternative although PGP is available for RedHat RHEL 5
> and should be available for RHEL 6 soon if not already.  TrueCrypt is
> actually not allowed but more because of licensing issues than anything
> else.

Gak! Do you recall which licenses issues they ran into?

- Ryan
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