Comments on: Truecrypt 5.0 — Better than Ever

By: TrueCrypt 6.0 — Now With Hidden Operating Systems

TrueCrypt 6.0 — Now With Hidden Operating Systems — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:42:31 +0000

[...] posted about TrueCrypt before (here and here). Encryption software like TrueCrypt has become even more important with all the reports [...]

By: Randall

Randall — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:53:28 +0000

There’s no doubt that TrueCrypt slows down access to files. Hardware encryption built in to drives is probably the only realistic way to greatly minimize that.

That said, I don’t use Truecrypt to encypt entire drives — especially not a boot drive. I just use to to either create encrypted drives in a file and store the few things I need to protect there or set up a separate small encrypted drive and only use it for files that need to be kept from others.

By: Saqib Ali

Saqib Ali — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:34:19 +0000

I installed TrueCrypt on my laptop and ran some benchmark tests.

Benchmark Results:
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net/wiki/index.php/TrueCrypt#Benchmarks

Pros:
1) Easy to use product. Simple clean interface. Very user-friendly!
2) Free and Open Source
3) Multiple Encryption and Hashing algorithm available.

Cons:
1) Buffered Read and Buffered Transfer Rate was almost halved after TrueCrypt FDE was enabled :-(.
2) Access Time for large file (250+MB) increased by 11%.
3) The initial encryption of the 120 GB HDD took 2 hours.

By: Truecrypt 5.0 — Better than Ever

Truecrypt 5.0 — Better than Ever — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:28:52 +0000

[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI posted about Truecrypt back in 2006 on the old version of this blog. A few days ago, Truecrypt version 5.0 was released with a number of nice improvements, including the ability to encrypt the boot drive. From the announcement: We are … [...]