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March 24, 2007

Migration from BestCrypt to TrueCrypt

Filed under: Blog — krkhan @ 9:54 pm

After trying out TrueCrypt for a day, I decided to migrate all of my encrypted data from BestCrypt to its containers. A number of reasons compelled me to transfer 30 GB of data spread across various containers, some of which included:

  • TrueCrypt doesn’t load a plethora of kernel modules whenever I load the main one in memory. I despise seeing about 10 modules, one for each supported algorithm, whenever I tried to load the basic one (bc).
  • Similarly, TrueCrypt doesn’t bloat my bin directory with redundant bc* files.
  • It also saves me the trouble of even (un)loading the modules as the application automatically takes care of it.
  • TrueCrypt has nice wizards for its command-line application. Which spares me the trouble of remembering all those switches involved with the bctool command.
  • It also provides some useful features which aren’t present in BestCrypt e.g. key-files and volume header backups.
  • Unlike BestCrypt, TrueCrypt can be run without root privileges on Linux.
  • One reason to rule them all: it’s free and released under GPL.

For those of your who’re wondering what exactly is TrueCrypt: it’s a disk encryption software which can create virtual password-protected ‘encrypted’ drives on your PC; it’s easy-to-learn and has excellent documentation for beginners. Just head over to the official website and download a version suited to your operating system (and have my sympathies if you’re using a Mac).

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2 Comments

  1. I fully agree, I made ​​a donation to help the developers

    Comment by Agostino — December 22, 2011 @ 6:37 pm

  2. So, what do you say today, now that the developers have disappeared and abandoned this (TrueCrypt) software? With some people even claiming that it’s not even encrypting in some cases, I would worry about the trustworthyness of this application, and any doubt, to me, leaves this software off of any of my systems.

    Comment by Rob Ingenthron — January 21, 2015 @ 9:46 pm

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