Thanks Si for this belated release news on TrueCrypt, a week old but better late than never eh?
TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. Some of its main features include: Creating a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk, Encrypting an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive and ability to Encrypt a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
The program has been downloaded over 4.5 million times and boasts a great following on its forums.
TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. Some of its main features include: Creating a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk, Encrypting an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive and ability to Encrypt a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
The program has been downloaded over 4.5 million times and boasts a great following on its forums.
Improvements:
- The memory requirements for the TrueCrypt Boot Loader have been reduced by 18 KB (eighteen kilobytes). As a result of this improvement, the following problem will no longer occur on most of the affected computers: The memory requirements of the TrueCrypt Boot Loader 5.0 prevented users of some computers from encrypting system partitions/drives (when performing the system encryption pretest, the TrueCrypt Boot Loader displayed the following error message: Insufficient memory for encryption).
Bug fixes:
- On computers equipped with certain brands of audio cards, when performing the system encryption pretest or when the system partition/drive is encrypted, the sound card drivers failed to load. This will no longer occur. (Windows Vista/XP/2003)
- It is possible to access mounted TrueCrypt volumes over a network. (Windows)
- TrueCrypt Rescue Disks created by the previous version could not be booted on some computers. This will no longer occur. (Windows Vista/XP/2003)
Note: If your TrueCrypt Rescue Disk created by TrueCrypt 5.0 cannot be booted on your computer, please upgrade to this version of TrueCrypt and then create a new TrueCrypt Rescue Disk (select 'System' > 'Create Rescue Disk'). - Many other minor bug fixes. (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux)
Download: TrueCrypt 5.0a | 2.4 MB (Freeware)
View: TrueCrypt Website
When you mount a volume with TC it shows as being mounted twice in the system - once as the letter you assigned and another letter assigned by system itself (like a removable device).
Certain programs (TVersity for example) doesn't let you mount one of the drives because of the UPC path issue (or something similar, as I had this problem few days ago)
Also, you see duplicate entries of letters in the drive list under TC, but it's more of a cosmettic issue.
But, aside those problems - the program works well - I can work with it while waiting for the 5.0b update to fix the mentioned issues.
It was a fresh install of system with no previous installation of TC on it.
It was a fresh install of system with no previous installation of TC on it.
your probably right
so in other words after the next release or two most of the bugs should be worked out.... i dont use the whole drive encryption myself as i just use a file container in general and as far as thats concerned i would say in terms of reliability etc etc truecrypt is top notch as like i said before i been using it since 2005 and i never had data corruption from truecrypt.
just give it time
5.0a fixed a (probably much bigger for more people) nuisance where it wouldn't run unless X was running, and text-mode commands wouldn't return. That's good.
Oh, and AT LONG LAST, A GUI! Okay, it's wxGTK (yech), but at least it's modelled closely on the Windows GUI and is (nearly) functionally identical.
All in all, a good update for my (free) money
Now that 5.x's out, will it work on Linux based systems?
Now that 5.x's out, will it work on Linux based systems?
As I said, the new GUI is functionally -- and for the most part visually -- identical to the Windows version (apart from being unable to create volumes), and from my use so far it seems perfectly stable. You can either pop-up a dialog in your login script to mount drive(s) of your choice, or have it run in the systray for quick access to all the GUI functions.
Mounted drive as X:\Encrypted
It comes up 5 seconds later in My Computer as both X:\Encrypted and H:\Encrypted and also shows the J:\(the original device letter) as an unformatted drive (which I assume is fine - except I'd rather not see it at all).
Is there a solution to this and does it affect functionality. I'm about to commit a lot of data to my new encrypted volume!
BTW it was a fresh install on my machine. First time I've used truecrypt.
Thanks in advance
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