I don’t have to present to all of you truecrypt. It is a free, open source, portable, powerful, on-the-fly encryption. But I did not find it in the list of portable apps. I am just wondering why? The truecrypt project seems to me to exactly be the software this website is done for…
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Mainly because it's not very portable. It requires administrative privileges to run, and a driver has to be installed locally on every machine you want to have access to your encrypted drive.
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It is also possible to run 'TrueCrypt.exe' directly from the 'Setup Files'
folder without installation ('traveller' mode). However, if an older version
of TrueCrypt is currently installed on the system, it must be uninstalled
first.
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Even in traveller mode the device driver needs to be installed (unless it has been installed at an earlier occasion), and for this to do you need admin rights.
I gave up hope to find a portable program with virtual drives - it seems there is strictly nothing to do about it. There are more programs like TrueCrypt, also free and opensource, but they all suffer from this deficiency.
Cheers
Chris
Always on the move - love all portable apps!
An alternative I use is bcarchive. While it doesn't mount a drive, it does open an Explorer like window into the archive. Files can be dragged into and out of the archive or opened directly from the archive explorer.
http://www.jetico.com/bcarchive.htm
Jetico also has BestCrypt which seems similar to TrueCrypt. The latest list of fixes mentions "In Windows 2000/NT/XP BestCrypt now supports creating and formatting containers by users with ordinary privileges (i.e. not by Administrators only)." Sounds promising, but it's not free.
Then using it under a virtualised OS may be your only option for true portability, theres a performance penalty and some extra baggage to carry about but it does work... friend made a fairly minimal version based off linux under Qemu some time ago that is fairly quick and will let you create, open and save truecrypt archives without local admin privilages on the host OS...