TrueCrypt 5: Encrypt your drive in GUI
A few days ago TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released, a great tool for encrypting your hard drives. It can be used to encrypt existing partitions or create a virtual one located in a single file. In this article we cover the changes in version 5.0 and provide you some useful benchmarks.
Major changes
Here are the major improvements over version 4.0:
* Ability to encrypt the root partition or disk with authorization during system bootup,
* Mac OS X support,
* Graphical user interface for Linux,
* XTS mode — faster and more secure than previous LRW mode. Disks/partitions encrypted with LRW are still usable in TrueCrypt 5.
* Hash algorithm SHA-1 replaced with SHA-512. In order to switch to the new algorithm for existing encrypted partitions you need to choose “Set Header Key Derivation Algorithm” option when re-encrypting your disk
* Redesigned Linux version, which should make TrueCrypt work way better with Linux kernel (it used to be very sensible to kernel upgrades before),
* Lots of other fixes together with security hardening
Creating an encrypted area
Encrypting your disk is now extremely easy. The graphical wizard tells does almost everything automatically. Here is how the process looks like, in a nutshell.
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