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.

One question

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Hans

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: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.