Tc-play allows to create TrueCrypt volumes. It is in Debian sid (tcplay), and would serve as a full replacement of TrueCrypt. Tc-play is a Free implementation of TrueCrypt based on dm-crypt, licensed under the 2-clause BSD license. Much of this is excerpted from this articled titled: Replace TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt also is and remains useful if you use an older or cheaper version of Windows that doesn't have Bitlocker.īased on some additional research these alternatives looked useful as well. Using a third-party mechanism only increases the sources that you need to trust. If you don't trust your operating system vendor, you can't trust the operating system at all, period. A backdoor in the operating system could recognize and extract the key for a third-party encryption mechanism - or it could cut the middleman and leak your data directly. The encryption subsystem isn't even the easiest place to hide a backdoor - for example, it's easier to hide something in the networking stack, and it's easier for that subsystem to report the information outside. If you're concerned about backdoors in your operating system's native encryption mechanism, then you need to be equally concerned with backdoors else where in your operating system. The simple solution is of course to encrypt individual files (with PGP), but this can be tedious in some scenarios. Another option would be to use Dm-crypt and access files via a Linux virtual machine (which you could bundle as an appliance on an unencrypted partition on the disk). Depending on your adversaries' profile, you may elect to continue to use Truecrypt until vulnerabilities are made public - you need to evaluate the risk of someone stealing your disk now and decrypting it later if a devastating vulnerability are found. As Linux cannot access encrypted NTFS files and Windows can of course not access Ecryptfs (nor does either OS support the other one's native encryption), the alternatives there are limited. The main advantage of Truecrypt is if you have an encrypted removable disk that you want to be able to use under both Windows and Linux. Under Linux, use Dm-crypt via LUKS for whole-disk encryption, and Ecryptfs for home directory encryption. This means: under Windows, use Bitlocker. This has superior integration, so it tends to be easier to use and administer not only for single-OS users and administrator but even for dual-OS users. I said it before, and I'll say it again: the best solution, unless you have very specific requirements, is to use your operating system's native encryption mechanism. As the audit moves into its next phase, digging past the startup and boot loader and into the core crypto, updates will be posted and maintained here. : This is the home of the TrueCrypt auditing project.But readily browsable if someone wishes to poke around within the source with their web browser. /syglug/truecrypt: Another TrueCrypt v7.1 archive, though apparently not the latest./DrWhax/truecrypt-archive: This is a frequently cited, nearly complete, historical repository of previous TrueCrypt versions, tracking its evolution all the way back to when it was previously named “ScramDisk” (which is when we were first using and working with it).what TrueCrypt becomes will not be called “TrueCrypt.” Given the deliberate continuing licensing encumbrance of the registered TrueCrypt trademark, it seems more likely that the current TrueCrypt code will be forked and subsequently renamed. TrueCrypt.ch: A just launched, Swiss-based, possible new home for TrueCrypt.single 24.5MB ZIP archive containing all of the last TrueCrypt v7.1a materials. There are also links to the latest versions of TrueCrypt which include all the source code + installation packages.
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