TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt is a discontinued source-available freeware utility used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file, encrypt a partition, or encrypt the whole storage device (pre-boot authentication).
Key facts
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.size
- 3.30 MB
- Software.language
- English, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese
- Software.genre
- Disk encryption software
- Software.license
- TrueCrypt License 3.1 (source-available freeware)
- Software.logo
- File:Truecrypt Faenza.svg
- Software.screenshot
- TrueCrypt on windows vista.png
- Software.caption
- TrueCrypt on Windows (discontinued)
- Software.developer
- TrueCrypt Foundation
- Software.latest release version
- 7.2
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Article
35 sectionsContents
- History
- E4M and SecurStar dispute
- Version 2.0
- End of life announcement
- Operating systems
- Independent implementations
- Encryption scheme
- Algorithms
- Modes of operation
- Keys
- Plausible deniability
- Identifying TrueCrypt volumes
- Performance
- Incompatibility with FlexNet Publisher and SafeCast
- Security concerns
- Encryption keys stored in memory
- Physical security
- Malware
- The "Stoned" bootkit
- Trusted Platform Module
- Security audits
- Legal cases
- Operation Satyagraha
- ''United States v. John Doe''
- David Miranda
- Lauri Love
- James DeSilva
- Druking
- License and source model
- End of life and license version 3.1
- Trademarks
- See also
- References
- External links
- Archives
TrueCrypt is a discontinued source-available freeware utility used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file, encrypt a partition, or encrypt the whole storage device (pre-boot authentication).
On 28 May 2014, the TrueCrypt website announced that the project was no longer maintained and recommended users find alternative solutions. Though development of TrueCrypt has ceased, an independent audit of TrueCrypt published in March 2015 concluded that no significant flaws were present. Two projects forked from TrueCrypt: VeraCrypt (active) and CipherShed (abandoned).