Best Disk Encryption Software – the 5 top tools to secure your data

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VeraCrypt

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt and is widely considered its successor. It performs all of the same functions as TrueCrypt and then some. VeraCrypt adds security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption. These improvements make it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks, according to developers. You can find a full list of improvements and corrections that VeraCrypt made on TrueCrypt here.

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Microsoft BitLocker

Bitlocker is popular Windows-only software used to encrypt entire volumes using the AES encryption algorithm with a 128- or 256-bit key. Unlike TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt, Bitlocker cannot create encrypted containers. Entire partitions must be encrypted at once.

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CipherShed

Like VeraCrypt, CipherShed started as a fork of TrueCrypt. It’s available for Windows PC, Mac OSX, and Linux, although it must be compiled for the latter two. The first non-alpha version was released in February this year, but there’s still no product (v1.0 or later) release.

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FileVault

Similar to Bitlocker, FileVault 2 has no option to create encrypted containers. That means once you’ve logged into your Macbook, all of the hard drive’s data is unencrypted and visible until the system is powered down.

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LUKS

For Linux users, LUKS is based on cryptsetup and uses dm-crypt as the disk encryption backend. Short for Linux Unified Key Setup, LUKS specifies a platform-independent standard on-disk format for use in various tools.

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TrueCrypt

VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt and is widely considered its successor. It performs all of the same functions as TrueCrypt and then some. VeraCrypt adds security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption. These improvements make it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks, according to developers. You can find a full list of improvements and corrections that VeraCrypt made on TrueCrypt here.

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DiskCryptor

DiskCryptor is another Windows-only full disk encryption solution. Relative to the above options, very little formal security analysis has been performed on DiskCryptor even though it’s open source. We also don’t know much about the authors and their motives. Skepticism as to whether the software is truly sound runs high. So why was it popular?

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