“WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues”
The page also includes this ominous warning: That page includes instructions for helping Windows users transition drives protected by TrueCrypt over to BitLocker, the proprietary disk encryption program that ships with every Windows version (Ultimate/Enterprise or Pro) since Vista. Sometime in the last 24 hours, began forwarding visitors to the program’s home page on, a Web-based source code repository. Mode of operation: XTS.The anonymous developers responsible for building and maintaining the free whole-disk encryption suite TrueCrypt apparently threw in the towel this week, shuttering the TrueCrypt site and warning users that the product is no longer secure now that Microsoft has ended support for Windows XP.
Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system. Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:. Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted. Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication). Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive. Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Similarly, files that are being written or copied to the TrueCrypt volume are automatically being encrypted on-the-fly (right before they are written to the disk) in RAM. Files are automatically being decrypted on-the-fly (in memory/RAM) while they are being read or copied from an encrypted TrueCrypt volume. Files can be copied to and from a mounted TrueCrypt volume just like they are copied to/from any normal disk (for example, by simple drag-and-drop operations). Entire file system is encrypted (e.g., file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc). No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. 
TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device).
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