TrueCrypt 6.0 was released on the 4th, and includes some great new features, including the ability to encrypt and hide the entire operating system for Windows users. It is also optimized for multiple-core processors.

TrueCrypt 6.0 is available for Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux. Get it here.

For first-time encrypters, last year I posted a tutorial on creating encrypted file containers with TrueCrypt. It is a bit old, since I was using TrueCrypt 4 for Windows, but it appears it is still accurate for the new version.

TrueCrypt 6.0 Released | TrueCrypt.org (via Lifehacker)

“Free” has two meanings: (1) gratis, and (2) libertas. When I say free software, I mean libertas, although much free software is gratis, as well.

Choice

There are two parts to choice: (1) different software that does the same thing, and (2) the ability to modify software to do what you want.

Don’t like the way Word handles bulleted lists? Try OpenOffice.org. Or AbiWord. Or KOffice. Or . . .

There are many brilliant programmers developing free software, and you might like one better than what you are using now. For text documents, there are a ton of options, and most of them will open and edit your .doc files just like Word.

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My favorite encryption software, TrueCrypt, released a major update today. There are two major new features:

• TrueCrypt now allows encryption of the entire system partition in Windows. TrueCrypt has enabled encryption of non-system partitions before, but this features allows you to encrypt your entire drive.
• The long-awaited graphical interface for GNU/Linux!

TrueCrypt is a free and open-source software for encrypting files and disks. For a tutorial on getting started with TrueCrypt, see this post from last April. If and when I experiment with full-system encryption, I will post a new tutorial and review.

[via Slashdot

Edit: I had to see the GNU/Linux graphical interface. Click the thumbnail to see the larger version. It works so well I could cry for joy. No more command line! It is missing some of the nice features of Windows interface. For example, it will not automatically mount your encrypted volumes on startup, and will not automatically dismount them on shutdown. But it does automatically detect and enable NTFS, which is a great feature. Thanks you, TrueCrypt team! Definitely a project worth supporting.