Feb 27, 2017 - Because of their portability and huge capacities, you can store lots of. DiskCryptor encrypts the whole USB drive so it could take a while to. DiskCryptor is a free whole disk encryption tool for Windows. It's flexible, supports keyfiles, and can even encrypt ISO files. Software Updater is a Portable.

Discovering the forums, this seems to have been asked and promised for more than 2 years. Even the official description says: Portable mode will be realized together with container's support as they can be mounted without driver installation.

Looking for a replacement of TrueCrypt, at least container / volume support is what I am looking for (portability comes second). When will container support be ready? In the meantime, is there another way to do what I am looking for without container support?

Here is the scenario: 1/ Connect my USB disk to my Desktop at home Desktop (with DC drive encryption) USB disk with 100MB encrypted container 2/ Mount the container from the USB disk and map it to a drive letter on my desktop 3/ Sync the data using SyncBackSE Pro 4/ Dismount the drive on the USB disk. My USB disk now has the latest data and I can use it to edit the data 5/ Connect my USB disk to a third party computer USB disk with 100MB encrypted container Third party computer (no encryption) 6/ Mount the container from the USB disk and map it to a drive letter on the third party computer 7/ Edit my data on the mounted drive, then un-mount the drive. Back home, start again with 1/ to push the data change on to my Desktop.

In another scenario, I also want to be able to make a backup copy of the encrypted volume from my USB disk to a NAS (copy of the container itself without mounting it). Leaving unencrypted files on an Internet connected NAS makes me particularly nervous, as Synology's track record in Security does not seem over the top. Please respond asap as I am evaluating other alternatives, but DC makes it to the top of my shortlist.

What really prompted this post is I discovered native OS encryption isn’t always an option, and the relatively portable solution I used until now (EncFS) doesn’t play well with Windows 8.1. EFS isn’t available in some versions of Windows, and Microsoft forces users to to ‘the cloud’. This is just retarded, given solid home directory and disk encryption have been readily available in most versions of Linux for over a decade. So I had a little problem to solve. Different encryption solutions work in different ways, and are designed for different situations.

For example, GPG file encryption is excellent for sending or uploading stuff to online storage, but it’s awkward for data in storage. Full disk encryption is excellent for protecting drives, but the protection generally isn’t portable. Realistically we’re going to use a combination of two or more solutions.

GPG and BleachBit Technically the simplest and safest method for physically transporting files between two machines with different operating systems, but it’s awkward in practice. The problem exists largely because file encryption typically creates an encrypted copy of a file, and the original must be wiped – will simplify this process on Windows. Compare this to EncFS, where no unencrypted data touches persistent storage.

Volume Encryption with DiskCryptor The first task is to ensure sensitive files aren’t being carried around unencrypted on a laptop’s removable media. One solution I tried was, which takes the place of EFS and BitLocker. The removeable media here is a 16GB storage device, which I already formatted to FAT32 and populated with a handful of test files. It took over an hour to set up encryption. The DiskCryptor application must be used for decrypting and mounting the volume after this, but it works very fast. Without the application, the volume appears as a blank unformatted partition. The drives on the Windows and Linux machines can be encrypted.

Now there’s just the portable USB storage to secure. VeraCrypt Given the TrueCrypt project was discontinued amid the Ed Snowden drama, with commercial privacy solutions (Silent Circle, LavaBit, etc.) also being pulled, it’s understandable that people would feel uneasy about a appearing (especially as binaries on Microsoft’s CodePlex). Again, for those who want to trade convenience for a more paranoid solution, GPG and Bleachbit is the way to go, but even then it could be argued the underlying technologies (microcode and compilers) might be compromised. For most cases, VeraCrypt looks pretty good as an alternative to TrueCrypt, but I wonder how long the software will be maintained and whether it is actually safer than TrueCrypt at this point. I decided to try it creating a small 2GB volume and accessing it on both Windows and Linux – and it worked.