TrueCrypt: Now On OSX

By on Feb 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment 

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The super popular open source disk encryption software TrueCrypt is now available for the Mac OS.

TrueCrypt creates a virtual encrypted disk that mounts in the Finder and provides on-the-fly 256-bit encryption. You can keep this virtual disk on your drive or on a USB thumb drive and can even be hidden. TrueCrypt relies on MacFUSE to work all of it’s magic.

Given the softwares roots it’s not surprising that the interface isn’t very Mac-like. Nevertheless, you mount and create virtual disks via the TrueCrypt application and interact with them via the Finder.

TrueCrypt is a free grab from sourceforge.

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