Protect Your Sensitive Data With TrueCrypt

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I recently attended an IT presentation where the main subject was security and computers. Encryption of data is obviously one of the point that has been raised. A few solutions have been mentioned and particularly TrueCrypt is one of the software applications that has been said to be very good to protect data. I just tried it on my USB key and also on a partition of my external hard drive. It works well so far, I like it.

About TrueCrypt :

It is Open-Source software.
It works on different OS : Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux.
It can encrypt data on disk partitions, drives, portable memory devices (USB keys, IPod etc…).
Encryption is real-time, done on the fly.
It uses extremely strong Encryption algorithms.
It has an hidden volume option.

I used to worry about losing my USB key. Now with the encryption done with TrueCrypt I feel very safe. Someone looking at the content of my key will only see one file (corresponding to an encrypted volume). The encryption used is said to be taking years to crack and in addition this file does not show any correlation to TrueCrypt. I think that should be good enough security wise.