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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."
Project homepage is here: http://www.truecrypt.org/
Release notes here http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=version-history
(Btw, these links should be in the article, instead of an external (sponsored?) one).
Yeah, but Truecrypt has a defence against that. It is called "hidden volumes". Basically, you create a container, use it for porn or financial records (something that you have a legitimate reason to want to hide, from the wife or identities thieves for example), something that you access often. Then you create a hidden volume that is put at the end of that volume, which to access requires a second password.
There is no way of knowing if that second hidden volume exists unless you have both passwords.
If you access the first volume without both passwords, then you can just wipe over whatever information you have stored in the hidden volume.
Oh yeah, I love TrueCrypt. It's groovy.
I wank in the shower.
It still only creates FAT file systems, but you can reformat to whatever you want afterwards. I tried it with both HFS+ and ZFS and it seemed to work fine.
actually you can. with truecrypt I can create an encrypted volume which is just a file on my hard disk. say it's 1 gigabyte. To access it I have to type in my password "secretpass" I see a 1 gigabyte volume. now I can stop there. it's encrypted strongly enough to protect my files. I throw 200 MB of porn/corporate data/personal emails/photos of my girlfriend on there. it shows as 800MB free. Now I create a hidden volume 800 MB in size. In there I put my plans for how to kill every politician, the details of my drugrunning opperation, the plans for a nuclear weapon. etc etc etc. to access this I have to type in my second password "password2" So I boot up truecrypt, select the 1 gig file which is my virtual drive, type in "secretpass". What I then see is a 1 gig drive with 800mb free space and lots of semi-important files. if I open that same file with "password2" I'll see an 800MB drive almost full with highly important documents. There is no missing hard drive space, no hint at all that there is anything but the first drive unless I enter the second password. (side note, if you add files to the first drive then there's a chance that you'll overwrite files on the hidden drive since unless you enter that password as well then truecrypt can't see that it's there.)
I work as a consultant and often use Truecrypt on my USB key in traveller mode on sites where I work. The top thing on my wishlist is to be able to run/install Truecrypt on a Windows machine without admin rights.
The issue is described in full here:
Full release notes can be found here.
You dont need Admin rights with TCexplorer
Ideal for USB key
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/TCExplorer.aspx
You mean like this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcexplorer ?
The disappearing pencil trick. Let me show you it.