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    Good alternative to TrueCrypt

    I'm looking for a good alternative to truecrypt. I've seen that development is slow on the new ciphershed and I need a good encryption software. Paid or freeware doesn't matter.
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    DiskCryptor is great if you don't mind no container support and a few other limitations.
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    What about something with container support?
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    VeraCrypt is another TC fork. A very unwieldy form of containers can be had with DiskCryptor if you use 2TWare's virtual disk utility.

    I don't know any other program that supports them and is open source, which is necessary for me to take them seriously.
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    I ended up still using truecrypt. Don't like any of them.
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    What don't you like? They're forks so they should be really similar.
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    Hi Master Razor. I know that you use Linux in some cases alongside Windows from what I recall. Have you considered Boxcryptor at some point?
    https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/blog/b...os-x-and-linux
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    boxcryptor is good, but truecrypt is still better by far as boxcryptor does not obscure file count nor file size.
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    I like Veracrypt. An audit of Veracrypt 1.18 has been demanded by OSTIF, and performed by QuarksLabs. Some critical vulnerabilities have been found, most of them fixed in V1.19. Some "legacy" problems (from TrueCrypt) such as password leakage in the MBR have also been fixed. Concerning the vulnerabilities not yet fixed, Veracrypt's Manual is proposing a workaround for now. A Technical Report can be found here.

    If you like these kind of project, you could consider RabbitHole, too: "AES-256 encrypted file archive with any number of hidden volumes for plausible deniability". But it's in kind on beta stage.


    But for "cloud computing" (meaning "sending your valuables folders&files to someone's else computer") I just use 7z encrypted and name scrambled archives (and it's entirely opensource and free). The whole process is for sure a bit worrying, but that prevent me to use "cloud computing" when I have not really usage. Contrary to what thinks M. Zuckerberg, some friction is sometimes desirable.
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    VeraCrypt is a good successor of TrueCrypt. especially after the audit. it seems to be the new standard now.
    an additional plus is that you can not only use but also convert existing TrueCrypt files and volumes.
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    Yeah, VeraCrypt is the next TrueCrypt. Their names even mean the same!

    It is noteworthy that as part of fixing the issues found in the audits, the amount of hash iterations was increased (and made customizable), making it very resistant to brute force attacks. Read https://gist.github.com/epixoip/ace6...fdd35005051505 to see how running one against a VC container using eight last-gen graphic cards in parallel is two orders of magnitude slower than TC with the same settings. 7-Zip is also much better than may be expected from an archiving format in this regard.
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