TrueCrypt
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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, or encrypt a partition or the whole storage device (pre-boot authentication).
Discontinued source-available disk encryption utility
 TrueCrypt on Windows (discontinued) | |
| Developer(s) | TrueCrypt Foundation |
|---|---|
| Initial release | February 2004; 19 years ago (2004-02)[1] |
| Final release | |
| Written in | C, C++, Assembly[3] |
| Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux,[3] MorphOS[4] |
| Size | 3.30 MB |
| Available in | 38 languages[5] |
List of languages English, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese | |
| Type | Disk encryption software |
| License | TrueCrypt License 3.1 (source-available freeware) |
| Website | truecrypt |
On 28 May 2014, the TrueCrypt website announced that the project was no longer maintained and recommended users find alternative solutions. Though development of TrueCrypt has ceased, an independent audit of TrueCrypt (published in March 2015) has concluded that no significant flaws are present.[6] Two projects forked from TrueCrypt: VeraCrypt (active) and CipherShed[7] (abandoned).