TrueCrypt Now Supports Vista!

Note from the future (2025): This post is from 2007. The TrueCrypt project was abruptly discontinued in 2014 and is no longer considered secure. The recommended and actively maintained successor is VeraCrypt, which is based on the original TrueCrypt code. Please use VeraCrypt for any new encryption needs.

Just as I was heading off to bed, I decided to check the TrueCrypt website to see if they added Vista support. I've checked it a few times since March 19th, so I don't know why I didn't notice but version 4.3 now supports Vista. For a moment there, I thought Vista support was going to be vaporwear - they've been promising it since February, 2006.

I donated to the TrueCrypt Foundation back in January because it was some of the greatest software I'd used in a long time. The software provides a sense of security -- knowing that my documents/pictures/music are protected in the event that my laptop were to be stolen. To me, knowing someone could be looking at my documents or pictures is an even scarier thought than even having my laptop stolen. So after installing Vista, I was really bummed when I read that the current version would not work.

If you are looking to encrypt an entire disk or portions of a disk, TrueCrypt was a revolutionary tool for its time. It worked on both Windows and Linux, was free, and had a ton of functions.