TrueCrypt is far superior when it comes to security in the sense that everything is encrypted and decrypted on the fly in RAM. But it is also pretty complex to setup. And maybe I've just missed it, but I don't know how to do things like email myself a copy of an actual encrypted file, or copy and paste an encrypted file into Dropbox without decrypting it.
So people who use TrueCrypt probably won't want to use this. But for people who don't know what "Create Volume" and "Mount all Devices" mean, this is hopefully a lot simpler. It really is just a folder that encrypts files when they are copied into it, and decrypts them when they're copied out of it. There are no hidden disk images and we don't even encrypt the filenames so anyone up to anything particularly devious will probably not want to use it. But it is absolutely trivial to get running. And my mother can use it. :)
TrueCrypt is far superior when it comes to security in the sense that everything is encrypted and decrypted on the fly in RAM. But it is also pretty complex to setup. And maybe I've just missed it, but I don't know how to do things like email myself a copy of an actual encrypted file, or copy and paste an encrypted file into Dropbox without decrypting it.
So people who use TrueCrypt probably won't want to use this. But for people who don't know what "Create Volume" and "Mount all Devices" mean, this is hopefully a lot simpler. It really is just a folder that encrypts files when they are copied into it, and decrypts them when they're copied out of it. There are no hidden disk images and we don't even encrypt the filenames so anyone up to anything particularly devious will probably not want to use it. But it is absolutely trivial to get running. And my mother can use it. :)