Srcasm

I've been a long-time believer in the need to encrypt your data but the question has always been, at what cost? Do I slow my access to the data down? Do I store it on a separate hardware encrypted device? Can I recover the data if something becomes corrupt? These are all important questions to ask one's self when deciding on the level of protection of your data. TrueCrypt has won a new place on my shelf on security tools.

TrueCrypt has been one of the most intriguing programs I have used over the past few years. It has the ability to created encrypted containers to store data in that can be auto-mounted as drives during Windows logon, it's cross platform, it allows encryption of full partitions and most recently in v5 had the addition of full system encryption (including a Windows partition). It does this in a seemingly easy but secure way.