Protect your USB Thumb Drive with TrueCrypt

With the increase of storage in the USB Thumb Drive, people can keep a lot data in those removable storage. There were a number of incidents recently where people has lost the USB Thumb Drive and leads personal data / video / photos being disclosed to the public.

With TrueCrypt, you can be assured that the data in the Thumb Drive will be encrypted and protected.

Main Features include:

• Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
• Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
• Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
• Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
  1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here).
  2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data).
• Encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. Mode of operation: XTS. 

Website to download - http://www.truecrypt.org/

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