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Source: H Security - Posted by Alex
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The TrueCrypt development team have announced the release of version 7.0 of their open source, cross platform, disk encryption tool. According to the developers, this major update to their on-the-fly encryption tool includes several improvements, new features, security enhancements and bug fixes on all platforms.
TrueCrypt 7.0 features a new 'Favorite Volumes Organizer' that lets users set various options for each favourite volume, support for hardware-accelerated AES encryption and support for devices that use sector sizes other than 512 bytes. Users can now configure a volume to be automatically mounted when its host device is connected to the users's system – assuming of course that the correct password or key-files are provided.
When testing the AES hardware acceleration on an Intel Core i5 650, running Fedora 13, The H's associates at heise Security found that simple AES Encryption and Decryption performance increased from a mean of 287 MBytes/s to 2 GBytes/s. When AES is combined with another unaccelerated algorithm, the results are, as expected, less dramatic: AES-Twofish throughput, for example, doubled from 150 to 270 MBytes/s.
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