What software do people on the bb use for encryption? What can be
recommended without hesitation?
I've had no problems with TrueCrypt, which I've been using on linux and
OS X for ~4 years (for personal systems, not lab ones). But I haven't
used it for storing files I've been doing anything I/O intensive with,
so I can't give any feedback on that.
As far as having encrypted data turn into unrecoverable junk, it's
always worth having backups (either un-encrypted, or using a different
encryption scheme) - especially since encryption makes low-level
recovery difficult to impossible.
Pete
Thanks.
Andreas
On 18/08/2011 1:19, Eric Bennett wrote:
John,
Since so many people have said it's flawless, I'd like to point out this is not
always the case. The particular version of the particular package that we have
installs some system libraries that caused a program I use on a moderately
frequent basis to crash every time I tried to open a file on a network drive.
It took me about 9 months to figure out what the cause was, during which time I
had to manually copy things to the local drive before I could open them in that
particular program. The vendor of the encryption software has a newer version
but our IT department is using an older version. There is another workaround
but it's kind of a hack.
So I'd say problems are very rare, but if you run into strange behavior, don't
rule out encryption as a possible cause.
-Eric
