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#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT SOFTWARE#
#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT PASSWORD#
#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT PC#

Tick the option " Include TrueCrypt Volume Creation Wizard".Select the USB thumb drive by clicking the " Browse." button.From the TrueCrypt menu, click " Tools" -> " Traveller Disk Setup"

#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT PC#

Plug you USB thumb drive into a PC with TrueCrypt installed.To prepare a USB drive for running TrueCrypt in 'traveller' mode, do the followings: TrueCrypt can be run in so-called ‘traveller’ mode, which allows you to access a TrueCrypt volume stored in a USB drive while using a PC in which TrueCrypt is NOT installed. Protecting sensitive data on a USB thumb drive Otherwise, all the files stored in the volume will also be deleted. Note: Do NOT delete the TrueCrypt volume (i.e. If you want to disconnect the volume and make the sensitive files inaccessible, either dismount the volume by clicking the " Dismount" button from the main window or restart the PC (this will make the drive disappear)."M" in this example) and the files stored in the drive will be encrypted instantly. When the TrueCrypt volume is mounted, you can copy or move sensitive files to the new drive (i.e.

#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT PASSWORD#

Enter your password when it prompts, then click " OK".Then select the container file you just created (i.e.

This will be the drive letter to which the TrueCrypt container will be mounted.

From the main window, select a drive letter from the list (e.g.

When format is finished, click " OK" and then " Exit".

Enter the desired password twice in the spaces provided (You are recommended to choose a good password.

(You cannot change the size once the volume was created.) 100MB) in the input field, click " Next". If you are not sure what to select here, you can use the default settings and click " Next".

Here you can choose an encryption algorithm and a hash algorithm for the volume.

In the Volume Creation Wizard window, click " Next".

Enter a name for the file in the File name box (e.g.

Then choose " Standard TrueCrypt volume", and click " Next".

Then choose " Create an encrypted file container", and click " Next".

From the main TrueCrypt window, click " Create Volume".

Create a TrueCrypt volume (which is in the form of a file that you have to give a name, a password and specify the file size).

Make sure you have login to the network.

Protecting sensitive data on an office PC (Screen captured base on TrueCrypt 7.1a) The followings are procedures in using TrueCrypt to protect sensitive data on an office PC or on a USB thumb drive: Losing the password means losing the information for good. Warning: It is important to note that once information is encrypted by any encryption software, it can only be opened with the CORRECT password.

#BITLOCKER VS TRUECRYPT SOFTWARE#

TrueCrypt is a free open-source software and has been made available in our network (via Network Teaching Software). TrueCrypt is one such software supporting 256-bit AES encryption which is a strong encryption tool adopted by the US government and it works on Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux. To protect sensitive and personal information, you may encrypt the file with data encryption software. Please refer to " Data Protection with VeraCrypt" or " Data Protection with BitLocker". You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.īitLocker is a encryption tool comes with Windows 7/8. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.