Am 02.06.2014 10:22, schrieb Dale:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl:
>>> Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when
>>> playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all
>>> time favorite apps, is no more.
>>>
>>> Some links of interest:
>>>
>>> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/truecrypt_wtf.html
>>>
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812133
>>>
>>> http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/505372-truecrypt-is-dead?page=1
>>>
>>>
>> well, if true: good riddance. But I suspect some hacker-y or power
>> struggle.
>>
>>
> 
> I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days.  Given
> the things that have come out in recent months, back doors and such,
> what is a good program/software/tool to use that is well . . . secure? 
> Is there such a thing now?
> 

Depends on your needs, for encrypting complete devices/partitions try
the kernels dm-crypt/luks module. If you just want to encrypt a
directory try encfs, and for file encryption there's openssl and gpg