On a slightly related question, what are you guys using instead of Truecrypt for virtual encripted disks?
I use a bit of confidential data for research, and keep the identifiers on a TC container, but since it is no longer maintained I wonder when will it stop working and if VeraCrypt/CipherShed are good or not. I don't access the data that often, so speed is not that big of a deal, but the ability to cover my back is always good (e.g. say "I used XYZ which was deemed as the best free alternative at the time")
VeraCrypt is being very actively developed, including fixing a number of bugs that were found in TrueCrypt. Watch my interview with the main developer here, including some analysis of the code showing that perhaps different people worked on it over different time periods:
I use a bit of confidential data for research, and keep the identifiers on a TC container, but since it is no longer maintained I wonder when will it stop working and if VeraCrypt/CipherShed are good or not. I don't access the data that often, so speed is not that big of a deal, but the ability to cover my back is always good (e.g. say "I used XYZ which was deemed as the best free alternative at the time")