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Comment by skrowl | Hacker News Reader

Since the death of TrueCrypt, I've been using VeraCrypt (https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/).

It's cross-platform FOSS instead of the "Hey, buy now!" BestCrypt that this article is pushing.

VeraCrypt looks good, but incompatibility with TrueCrypt volumes makes me uncomfortable with switching. I've also looked at CipherShed and DiskCryptor, but the fragmentation gives me no assurance that I'll be able to access my encrypted volumes several years from now.

So I'm still stuck with TrueCrypt 7.1a. After all, it's the only disk encryption software for Windows that has been independently audited. None of the purported replacements and proprietary alternatives can lay claim to that distinction, no matter how much Bruce Schneier might personally trust the developers.

Veracrypt now has a truecrypt mode, which can read truecrypt volumes. I believe it can also convert them to Veracrypt ones by changing the algo then unchecking truecrypt mode.

I've found about DiskCryptor trough ReactOS driver signing page: https://reactos.org/wiki/Driver_Signing They say that they review the code the result of which they offer signature for. Is or isn't that enough for "independently audited" label?

Review != security audit.

BestCrypt sounds like it's cross-platform, at least.

VeraCrypt https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Downloads seems to have Linux and OSX as well as Windows - or is there something else going on?

"BIOS mode only, UEFI/GPT not supported"

It's getting increasingly difficult to buy a Windows computer that's not UEFI/GPT, so no OS level encryption.

Their store looks like they only have volume encryption on Windows, and container encryption for Mac, Linux and Windows, unless I'm mistaken.

https://www.jetico.com/online-shop/shop/index/all-products

A-ha, I missed that distinction.

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