[ale] I have fallen in love with Truecrypt

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 19:04 -0500, Matty wrote: 
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:20 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 05:56 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >> > On 02/10/2011 11:24 PM, Matty wrote:
> >> > > There are very few pieces of software that I am smitten with, but
> >> > > Truecrypt has just fallen into that category. I have a geek crush on
> >> > > it now:;)
> >> > >
> >> > > http://prefetch.net/articles/truecrypt-desktop-encryption-osx-linux-windows.html
> >> > >
> >> > > Anyone else using it? Have you encountered any issues?
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > I use ecryptfs to mount a private folder. I'm not sure I'm ready to
> >> > encrypt my entire drive.
> >> > and I REALLY use KeepassX !! Sometimes I open that app many times a day!
> >> > & I have it on my windows box too.
> >> >
> >
> >> I use LUKS on all my laptops, full hard drive encrypted.  Easy to carry,
> >> easy to steel.  You can have the hardware, but all my bases will still
> >> belong to me.
> >
> > Yeah, I'm required by my office to have my hard drives fully encrypted.
> > For Windows, they require Enterprise PGP Desktop.  For Linux, LUKS is
> > the acceptable alternative although PGP is available for RedHat RHEL 5
> > and should be available for RHEL 6 soon if not already.  TrueCrypt is
> > actually not allowed but more because of licensing issues than anything
> > else.

> Gak! Do you recall which licenses issues they ran into?

I think (though I'm not totally sure) it was due to the convoluted terms
in section II, "Use, Copying, and Distribution of This Product" and
section III, "Modification, Derivation, and Inclusion in Other Products"
regarding redistribution.  I don't believe it's an OSS accepted
OpenSource license.

http://www.truecrypt.org/legal/license

> - Ryan
> --
> http://prefetch.net

Regards,
Mike
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