Secure your USB flash drives

Now you can secure your USB flash drives with military strength encryption to protect sensitive data and confidential business information. This one we've been waiting for - for a long time. Finally them fine people over at TrueCrypt.org have now come out with a new release of their beautiful and highly secure encryption software: available for Linux, Windows, and now finally also for Mac OS X.

Surely the software of choice when it comes to securing sensitive business data and information - this is what we use also on our own corporate USB flash drives.

Most software developers would agree that this is probably one of the most complete - and most secure - solutions for on-the-fly disc encryption available for civilian use. Using military strength encryption algorithms such as AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish you can create virtual encrypted disks within a file and mount it as a real disk, and with the new version all encryption algorithms use the more secure XTS mode of operation.

Use this together with the optional set-up of a hidden partition on the encrypted part of e.g your favorite USB flash drive and create a high level of plausible deniability: hidden within the encrypted file containing semi-confidential information there's another little box encrypted with a different password. This comes in handy should somebody try to force you to reveal the password to an encrypted volume. There are many situations thinkable where one would find it extremely difficult not to reveal the password. Using a second, and hidden encrypted container allows you to solve such situations without revealing the password to your last and hidden disk volume.

This new version comes with some nice new features and is now also available for Mac OS X - both PPC and Intel version are free to download over at www.truecrypt.org. A nice piece of Open Source Software!

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