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TR Dojo: File encryption made simple with TrueCrypt

By | March 24, 2010, 2:10am PDT

Summary: Bill Detwiler shows you how to encrypt and hide your sensitive date using a free, open-source application called TrueCrypt.

Bill Detwiler shows you how to encrypt and hide your sensitive date using a free, open-source application called TrueCrypt. Once you’ve watched this TR Dojo video, you can find a link to the original TechRepublic article and print the tip from our TR Dojo Blog.

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this product deserves more attention
RanRuobin 24th Mar 2010
I am using true crypt quite a time now (from xp to
vista and now win7)it is fast and reliable. However,
when I decrypted last time my notebook in a night
session, this process was interrupted for some reason
(honestly I don't know why). After this I could not
get access to my computer neither through the rescue
disk(reinstalling the headers etc....) nor through
decrypting outside the windows os. Other than that
case, I never had any problems with this product. it
is fast, simple and effective.
greetings from Chengdu China
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True Crypt
kenzdnet 24th Mar 2010
good article, good product. con: will crash win2003 if you try to use it with terminal services. Why?
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this product deserves more attention
RanRuobin 24th Mar 2010
I am using true crypt quite a time now (from xp to
vista and now win7)it is fast and reliable. However,
when I decrypted last time my notebook in a night
session, this process was interrupted for some reason
(honestly I don't know why). After this I could not
get access to my computer neither through the rescue
disk(reinstalling the headers etc....) nor through
decrypting outside the windows os. Other than that
case, I never had any problems with this product. it
is fast, simple and effective.
greetings from Chengdu China

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