Saturday, September 07, 2013

Microsoft Windows Disk Encryption

As a backup and scratch space, I purchased a 3 terabyte external USB drive.  To try encryption, I considered using the Microsoft Windows 8 BitLocker drive encryption.  With Microsoft giving user information to the NSA, I am weary of placing trust in Microsoft.  Looking for alternatives, I tried TrueCrypt disk encryption.


Installing TrueCrypt on a Microsoft Windows 8 disk:
While not explicitly supported, download and install the package.
Read the beginner tutorial and run the program.