TrueCrypt Alternative Data Encryption

Catssquirrel

Any Windows solution will have more back doors than the House of Lords.

VoucherMan

The Truecrypt audit is showing signs of life again

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/02/another-update-on-truecrypt-audit.html

John_Gray

tronator wrote: »

I used to use TrueCrypt some time ago, but I don't like the idea of containers which cannot be resized

Did you ever tick the box saying "Dynamic" when you set up a Truecrypt container? (I must say I never have!)
This might go some way to achieving what you want.
However I haven't heard of anyone using NTFS sparse files, though I'm sure someone must...

Source: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/creating-new-volume
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Dynamic
Dynamic TrueCrypt container is a pre-allocated NTFS sparse file whose physical size (actual disk space used) grows as new data is added to it. Note that the physical size of the container (actual disk space that the container uses) will not decrease when files are deleted on the TrueCrypt volume. The physical size of the container can only increase up to the maximum value that is specified by the user during the volume creation process. After the maximum specified size is reached, the physical size of the container will remain constant.
Note that sparse files can only be created in the NTFS file system. If you are creating a container in the FAT file system, the option Dynamic will be disabled ("greyed out").

Note that the size of a dynamic (sparse-file-hosted) TrueCrypt volume reported by Windows and by TrueCrypt will always be equal to its maximum size (which you specify when creating the volume). To find out current physical size of the container (actual disk space it uses), right-click the container file (in a Windows Explorer window, not in TrueCrypt), then select Properties and see the Size on disk value.

WARNING: Performance of dynamic (sparse-file-hosted) TrueCrypt volumes is significantly worse than performance of regular volumes. Dynamic (sparse-file-hosted) TrueCrypt volumes are also less secure, because it is possible to tell which volume sectors are unused. Furthermore, if data is written to a dynamic volume when there is not enough free space in its host file system, the encrypted file system may get corrupted.

buglawton

Tinfoil hat time. MS must be under pressure to 'break' Truecrypt's last proper working version with one of their updates, or as of a version of Windows 8 onwards. Bets on the table please.

Jivesinger

buglawton wrote: »

Tinfoil hat time. MS must be under pressure to 'break' Truecrypt's last proper working version with one of their updates, or as of a version of Windows 8 onwards. Bets on the table please.

Why would MS bother? The Truecrypt people have already given up on it, and they never claimed it was compatible with Windows 8 in the first place.

buglawton

Because it still works and the NSA doesn't like that?