Not long after news spread that TrueCrypt was shutting down, enough theories were circulating about what happened to fill an episode of the TV show 24. To recap: The developers of the TrueCrypt ...

Message from TrueCrypt that it’s being discontinued on SourceForge.net. The abrupt discontinuation of the disk and file encryption freeware TrueCrypt by its secretive software developers has left many ...

TrueCrypt is a powerful, free, open source program that allows you to create encrypted volumes on your computer, or to encrypt entire disks, including your system disk. Furthermore, it allows you to ...

In a move that appears designed to provoke widespread questions, the anonymous managers of the TrueCrypt open-source encryption project abruptly pulled the plug on the effort without explanation. A ...

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source, full-disk encryption program that’s the direct successor of the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt. Users ...

I'm thinking about how I secure my portable and external drives and wonder how others are doing it. Long ago I started using TrueCrypt then VeraCrypt to encrypt entire drives before using them for ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A team of security experts may seek to restore and improve a popular computer encryption system after its developers mysteriously shut it down, claiming "unfixed security ...

Today is the first in what will be a weekly series from me here on Open Source Fact and Fiction. I call it Open Source Friday Focus. Every week we will highlight an open source project that I think ...

Originally I wanted to use TrueCrypt system encryption to encrypt my harddrives however just as I was going to do so the thought occurred to me, I store %appdata% on my D drive rather than C. This ...

How secure is TrueCrypt, the open source disk encryption system used by many as a line of defense against snoops (and maybe spooks)? For a long time, the answer was “we don’t know.” Now, thanks to an ...

After nearly a year of drama, the widely-used encryption software TrueCrypt has come out from its security audit with a mostly clean bill of health. TrueCrypt has long been a popular way to encrypt ...

Sure, you can keep your files secure with BitLocker, available for certain versions of Vista. And Mac users have FileVault, which is free with Mac OS X. Personally, I like TrueCrypt. Here's why.Just ...