Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
by myoldryn on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:40PM
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Not every version... In case of Vista and 7 only Enterprise and Ultimate editions have it and in case of 8/8.1 you need to have Pro or Enterprise edition.
Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
by nikbackm on Friday May 30, 2014 @05:01AM
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True, but if you need disk encryption you probably use one of those already.
I mean, a normal use case is a corporate laptop used when traveling or similar. Normal home users certainly have no need of it, for them it's just something else that can go wrong and destroy all their data.
Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?
by rflig on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:32AM
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FDE was available from different vendors (I bought DriveCrypt PlusPack more than 15 yr ago and tried CompuSec (free) more than 10 yr ago, Comodo FDE is around since ~2k8).
So availability of FDE software can hardly be the reason. Neither the credibility of M$, in matters of quality of code as well as especially being an US based company.
Every version of Windows after XP has a native disk encryption utility. TrueCrypt was built to bring full disk encryption to Windows, which didn't exist at the time - this is the developers way of saying "you don't need us anymore, Windows now does what we did"