In the last post I described how to securely and permanently remove a file from the disk drive using Eraser.
Now what happen if you need to securely store, not delete, any files? In this post, we will introduce another open source tools that will help you do just that – TrueCrypt.
With TrueCrypt you can protect your sensitive data, create a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mount it as a disk. You can also encrypt an a hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive. The encryption is done automatically and transparently in real time. The author calls it an on-the-fly-encrypted volume .
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