{"id":95,"date":"2008-02-06T22:37:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T04:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=95"},"modified":"2008-02-06T22:39:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T04:39:53","slug":"truecrypt-50-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"TrueCrypt 5.0 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrypt.org\/\">TrueCrypt &#8211; Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows XP\/2000 and Linux &#8211; News<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are pleased to announce that TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released. Among the new features are the ability to encrypt a system partition or entire system drive (i.e. a drive where Windows is installed) with pre-boot authentication, pipelined operations increasing read\/write speed by up to 100%, Mac OS X version, graphical interface for the Linux version, XTS mode, SHA-512, and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We use truecrypt at my new job to encrypt our off-site backups (which are portable drives located on-site briefly during backup then taken off-site again).  It seems to work fairly well and removes the &#8220;what if&#8221; factor of having the backup stolen from my apartment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using a mix of TrueCrypt and encrypted DMG images on my flash drives to have portable personal data (and other secure shit).  Now, I can get rid of the encrypted DMGs and not worry about having to have access to a Mac in order to read them.<\/p>\n<p>GUIs for the 3 major OSes and full-HD encryption for Windows?&nbsp; Rock on, TrueCrypt, rock on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: TrueCrypt &#8211; Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows XP\/2000 and Linux &#8211; News We are pleased to announce that TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released. Among the new features are the ability to encrypt a system partition or entire system drive (i.e. a drive where Windows is installed) with pre-boot authentication, pipelined operations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekmuse.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}