TrueCrypt 6.0 Released

ruphus13 writes "While most of the US was celebrating Independence Day, the true fellow geeks over at TrueCrypt released version 6.0 of TrueCrypt over the long weekend. The new version touts two major upgrades. 'First, TrueCrypt now performs parallel encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, giving you a phenomenal speedup if you have more than one processor available. Second, it now has the ability to hide an entire operating system, so even if you're forced to reveal your pre-boot password to an adversary, you can give them one that boots into a plausible decoy operating system, with your hidden operating system remaining completely undetectable.' The software has been released under the 'TrueCrypt License,' which is not OSI approved."

Comments

Re:Only works if it's default install

[SoVeryTired]

"Stop being an idiot and read up on it" is not helpful criticism. This is a clear example of the elitist attitude which gives techies a bad name.

If you actually know anything about the subject, why not share it, instead of using a cheap putdown. It's not like you even addressed the issue the GP brought up. His whole point was that a hidden volume doesn't show up as free space.

I'd mod you down, but you might actually learn something this way.

Re:Only works if it's default install

[TheLink]

You should be concerned about using Truecrypt for plausible deniability when it should be clear that it has no plausible deniability until the day when a significant percentage of the population has Truecrypt installed WITH at least one encrypted partition that may or may not have a hidden partition.

Otherwise if you are in a country like the UK and don't want trouble from the RIPA, you should use crypto software that has no hidden partition feature, so that you can hand over all your passwords AND they can more easily tell that you did so.

I mean why wouldn't you hand over all your passwords? You and I have nothing to hide from our Governments right? So people like us shouldn't use TrueCrypt - the hidden partition feature is counterproductive for us.

If you really want to keep a hidden encrypted partition, you put it on a removable drive and hide it. As it is the Truecrypt hidden partition feature is a stupid idea.

Debian package? And old Mac OS X 10.2.8 support?

[antdude]

Is it me or is there no Debian package? I see an Ubuntu package. I don't want to compile from the source. Also, I also read that it requires sudo? Is there a way around this as a regular user?

Also, is there a port for old Mac OS X 10.2.8?