Stronger Passwords for the Masses, by Michael Z. Williamson

Sunday, December 8, 2013 21:05

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This article should be of interest to anyone who is cyber security conscious–which should be everyone, in the present era:

Now consider the pointed lesson of the XKCD site.

Are you now concerned? …then use:

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The main features of Truecrypt:

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard drive.
Encrypts a partition or drive where Windows is installed (pre-boot authentication).
Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
Parallelization and pipelining allow data to be read and written as fast as if the drive was not encrypted.
Encryption can be hardware-accelerated on modern processors.
Provides plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
Hidden volume (steganography) and hidden operating system.

Take the time to increase your password security and your general computing security. Someday you may be very glad that you did!

Thanks, – Michael Z. Williamson (SurvivalBlog’s
Editor at Large)