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TrueCrypt 6.0 Released

Posted by kdawson on from the plausible-deniability dept.

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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  1. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    svefg cbfg

  2. Great - I'll keep my geek-cred by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Only works if it's default install by eiapoce · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  4. One question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Hans

  5. NSA backdoor? by Cur8or · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Only works if it's default install by houghi · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  7. Re:More filesystems by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.