gHacks technology news » secure pc http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 True Crypt 6.1 Released http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/02/true-crypt-61-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/02/true-crypt-61-released/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:47:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8020 One of the very first articles that was published here at Ghacks was an article about securing a computer with True Crypt. The True Crypt developers have made several interesting changes both to the functionality of the hard drive encryption software but also to the speed and performance of it.

Version 6.1 of True Crypt was released two days ago and it has – again – added interesting features to the encryption software. The major improvement of this release affects Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. It is now possible to encrypt non system partitions on those operating systems without losing the data on those partitions. That feature is unfortunately not available in previous operating systems such as Windows XP.

To encrypt a non-system partition and retain the data of the partition one would have to follow the path
Create Volume’ > ‘Encrypt a non-system partition’ > ‘Standard volume’ > ‘Select Device’ > ‘Encrypt partition in place’ in True Crypt.

Another interesting addition is the support of keyfiles on security tokens and smart cards that comply with the PKCS #11 standard. Text output of the True Crypt bootloader can now be suppressed or customized.

A complete list of changes and updates is available in the True Crypt release notes on the True Crypt homepage.

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Most of the tips can be classified as core tips, everyone should use them to make his system more secure. I know its a lot to read and pc magazine has the nasty habit to divide the article on lots of pages, probably to increase page impressions. If you are interested head over to pc magazine and read the article.

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