Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 08, 2007 11:35 PM
Don't you just hate it when there's an article and the fan boys come out of the woodwork saying; 'What about this and that?' Well, here's another one.
I find it strange that there is no mention of <a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/" title="truecrypt.org">TrueCrypt</a truecrypt.org>. While not intended for email use (TrueCrypt files could still be emailed), TrueCrypt is one of the best tools for portable encryption. It supports a ridiculous amount of encryption schemes including AES, Blowfish, CAST5, Serpent, Triple DES, Twofish, Cascades and possibly more. It is supported on most platforms including Linux and Windows and works really well.
I'm suprised that it wasn't mentioned in the article, at least for comparison purposes.
Also, a note on the "wiping" of files that was mentioned as a feature of some of the programs in the article. It should be noted that on most modern file systems, this technique does not work! File systems where wiping and scrubbing of individual files and directories WILL NOT WORK include NTFS, NSS, ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS and probably more. On these file systems, a triple wipe will simply result in an unlinked original file and three more unlinked files containing garbage. A total waste of time.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 08, 2007 11:35 PMI find it strange that there is no mention of <a href="http://www.truecrypt.org/" title="truecrypt.org">TrueCrypt</a truecrypt.org>. While not intended for email use (TrueCrypt files could still be emailed), TrueCrypt is one of the best tools for portable encryption. It supports a ridiculous amount of encryption schemes including AES, Blowfish, CAST5, Serpent, Triple DES, Twofish, Cascades and possibly more. It is supported on most platforms including Linux and Windows and works really well.
I'm suprised that it wasn't mentioned in the article, at least for comparison purposes.
Also, a note on the "wiping" of files that was mentioned as a feature of some of the programs in the article. It should be noted that on most modern file systems, this technique does not work! File systems where wiping and scrubbing of individual files and directories WILL NOT WORK include NTFS, NSS, ext3, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS and probably more. On these file systems, a triple wipe will simply result in an unlinked original file and three more unlinked files containing garbage. A total waste of time.
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