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Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday April 29, 2010 @04:29AM from the well-that's-different dept.

An anonymous reader noticed the news that Symantec has bought PGP and Guardian Edge for $370 million. They plan to standardize their encryption stuff on PGP keys.

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Re:suckitude by homer_ca · 2010-04-29 05:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

Check out TrueCrypt for full disk encryption. Not many FDE vendors left after Symantec scoops up these two. FreeOTFE does volume encryption but no boot loader for FDE.
Of course, if you're not stuck on Windows many recent distros support installing on an encrypted root volume. The Ubuntu alternate install CD is one of them.