Your desktop computer, your laptop, or your keys U.S.B., can be stolen.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you lost a U.S.B. key? or if thieves entered your home?
if thieves stole one of your computers, what data could they access? your bank account numbers?
all your usernames and passwords to access all your accounts: your bank, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon?
the consequences could be terribly bad for you...
How to never take such risks? that is, how to prevent your sensitive data from falling into other hands than yours?
There is only one solution: these data must be encrypted so that even if they have the material that contains them, they can not be read.
I think the best solution available is to use the Truecrypt software.
There is other software, but Truecrypt is at once powerful, well designed, safe, and lightweight in terms of disk space and memory.
Truecrypt is so powerful that it can encrypt a partition even if it contains an operating system. This makes it possible to encrypt an entire disk.
Once encrypted, the disk or partition will be viewed from the outside as an unformatted disk or partition.
However, I do not recommend encrypting a disk or partition, as this would make it impossible to back up with disk image software such as Partition Saving.
If you had a physical disk problem or a system crash at a critical time, you could lose all access to all support at once, which seems unacceptable to me.
I recommend that you create encrypted files with Truecrypt, and then configure it to automatically mount them when you launch Windows as new disks.
You will of course have to choose a password (at least thirteen characters).
On your hard drive, you will have the operating system and softwares on the unencrypted partition C, plus one or more encrypted files.
Your data: documents, passwords or personal or sensitive files, will be contained in files encrypted by Truecrypt,
and will be accessible only after having entered a password, under one or more other letters of partition, D for example.
And, if in Truecrypt you use a key file on a U.S.B. key, reading your encrypted files is impossible, even to those who know your password,
by simply removing the key after shutting down the computer.
But there is a problem with Truecrypt. Its development was stopped in a strange way.
On one hand, on the Truecrypt site, there is a message saying "Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues",
and an help on how to use an other encryption software in its place.
On the other hand, a new version, 7.1b, which was itself replaced by 7.2, can be downloaded, but it is incomplete, and important parts of version 7.1a have been removed.
It is as if the developers of Truecrypt had killed their software and asked their users to use more academic software, closed code,
and that we may think they may incorporate code allowing an outside party to access, as needed, the unencrypted content of encrypted files;
so-called backdoors.
In my opinion, do not follow the advice given on the Truecrypt page. This software must be used in the latest version which is absolutely safe and reliable, 7.1a.
Its source code is public, an external audit has been performed and concluded that this software is safe.
Download TrueCrypt 7.1a (2,86Mo).
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