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TrueCrypt is a discontinued source-available freeware utility used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file, encrypt a partition, or encrypt the whole storage device (pre-boot authentication).
Version Release date Significant changes 1.0 February 2, 2004 Initial release. Featured support for Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP.Added plausible deniability for containers (although due to its simplistic nature, the practical value of the "plausible deniability" offered in this version is debatable), [1] and various bugfixes and improvements over E4M.
VeraCrypt was forked from the since-discontinued TrueCrypt project in 2013, [8] and originally contained mostly TrueCrypt code released under the TrueCrypt License 3.0. In the years since, more and more of VeraCrypt's code has been rewritten and released under the permissive Apache License 2.0.
Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).. In 1999, he created E4M, a free and open-source disk encryption software program for Microsoft Windows, and is sometimes credited for open-source TrueCrypt, which is based on E4M's code, though he denies involvement with TrueCrypt.
TrueCrypt: TrueCrypt Foundation 2004-02-02 [38] TrueCrypt License 3.1 [39] No USBCrypt WinAbility Software Corp. 2010 Proprietary: Yes VeraCrypt: IDRIX 2013-06-22 [40] Apache License 2.0 [41] TrueCrypt License Version 3.0 (legacy code only) Yes CyberSafe Top Secret CyberSoft 2013 Proprietary: Yes Name Developer First released Licensing ...
E4M is discontinued; it is no longer maintained. Its author, former criminal cartel boss Paul Le Roux, joined Shaun Hollingworth (the author of the Scramdisk) to produce the commercial encryption product DriveCrypt for the security company SecurStar. The popular source-available freeware program TrueCrypt is based on E4M's source code. [4]
Some disk encryption software (e.g., TrueCrypt or BestCrypt) provide features that generally cannot be accomplished with disk hardware encryption: the ability to mount "container" files as encrypted logical disks with their own file system; and encrypted logical "inner" volumes which are secretly hidden within the free space of the more obvious ...
VeraCrypt (a successor to a discontinued TrueCrypt), an on-the-fly disk encryption software for Windows, Mac and Linux providing limited deniable encryption [18] and to some extent (due to limitations on the number of hidden volumes which can be created [16]) plausible deniability, without needing to be installed before use as long as the user ...