Update 05/28/2014 – TrueCrypt is now defunct but…
as of 01/03/2014, VeraCrypt has replaced it.

A colleague shared a response to my previous blog entry, Maybe I should be encrypting my data.

A quick way to get started with protecting your data is to use VeraCrypt.org ! Since I use VeraCrypt on Mac, Win and Linux machines, I’ve found it a great way to transport encrypted data and have it accessible across multiple platforms. Yet, how to introduce someone to VeraCrypt?

To that end, I sought out some tutorials on the web worth sharing that were written for TrueCrypt–VeraCrypt’s predecessor–but fortunately since VeraCrypt works exactly the same, they work fine!

1. Encrypting your private data – Part 1
2. Encrypting your private data – Part 2 

Or, watch these videos that you start you from scratch:

• TrueCrypt Video Tutorial
• How to Encrypt Your Hard Drive with TrueCrypt
• Full Disk Encryption with TrueCrypt

Update 01/3/2015: I now recommend the free, open source AESCrypt for individual file encryption, and VeraCrypt for encrypted containers. Find out more here.

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