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."

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[Anonymous Coward]

svefg cbfg

Great - I'll keep my geek-cred

[Chrisq]

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.

Great, I can now maintain my geek-cred by hiding the fact that I sometimes have to boot into Windows to run things like a GPS map updater. No more microsoft on the boot menu.

Re:Only works if it's default install

[eiapoce]

;) That is to say that you carelessly watch and upload too much porn without both password and you loose all those important TPS reports....

One question

[Anonymous Coward]

True crypt is fabulous. But is it good enough to hide a body?

Hans

NSA backdoor?

[Cur8or]

Does anyone know if the backdoor has been made a little more user friendly? The current one takes like 3 minutes to decrypt without the password.

Re:Only works if it's default install

[houghi]

Great!. Now everybody will think I have a hidden partition, because I have she-male porn. Uh I mean, never mind.

Re:Only works if it's default install

[urcreepyneighbor]

I have porn in one, pics of the GF in another,

Aren't those one in the same?

Thankfully, most people are careless with their homemade pr0n. I mean, uh, nevermind....

Re:That might betray the presence of a hidden volu

[Anonymous Coward]

What do you think pissed Hans off?

Re:Sad

[Dunbal]

Fanboyism of China is not helpful ... and even potentially dangerous."

      Thanks for the laugh. Oh wait, you were serious? LOOK! There's a "terrorist" behind you! Boo!

      Then again, how could we not have expected the nation that is chronically high on cocaine to become paranoid delusional?

Re:Sad

[bhima]

And that he hasn't is crushingly depressing.

Re:More filesystems

[Tumbleweed]

And mucking about with Reiser[FS] doesn't seem to appeal to anyone right now.

Yeah, but if you're already in trouble, you could make a deal by showing them where you hid the filesystem.

Re:Local admin rights on Windows

[74nova]

Check my eBay store, I have a fantastic line of new lead-lined foil hats for you

I had to say that, but in reality I suppose I work at too small a company to really comment.

Re:That might betray the presence of a hidden volu

[shaitand]

As a Perl-Fu artist who has been living in a world of *nix for the past 12yrs. Let me just say that seeing someone use Ubuntu doesn't clue newb to me.

On the contrary, Ubuntu is the only system I have seen that provides functional GUI interfaces that don't cause me to have to jump through hoops to do any sort of advanced manual configuration.

I'm all for power, but someone who chooses Slack or regular Debian over Ubuntu is probably the type who likes hot wax poured on their balls.

Re:Local admin rights on Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

Any other coders have time to update these projects? I know I don't

but you *do* have time to read slashdot...

Re:More filesystems

[Tumbleweed]

Tumbleweed will be here all night.

All too true...