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FreeOTFE 2.0 is now available (updated from 1.6):

Site: http://www.freeotfe.org/

Download: http://www.freeotfe.org/downloads/FreeOTFE_2_00.zip

Have found this superior to TrueCrypt, especially in on-the-fly encryption/decryption speed. Ran both through some Sandra file system benchmarking, and FreeOTFE was *dramatically* faster than TrueCrypt.


--Gary

Thanks for the new! Database updated!

FWIW, "FreeOTFE" is now at v3.0, not v2

# v4.00 (26th June 2008)

* Added support for 64 bit versions of MS Windows
* Added support for PKCS#11 (Cryptoki) security tokens/smartcards
* Significantly improved partition selection system
* Added "/drive", "/keyfile" and "/lesfile" command line parameters when mounting volumes
* Added user configurable global setting for default drive letter
* Extensive additions, changes and improvements made to documentation
* Various cosmetic and usability improvements

TPFC page: http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=698

Homepage: http://www.freeotfe.org/index.html

Download: http://www.freeotfe.org/downloads/FreeOTFE_4_00.zip

TPFC: http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=698 is on V4.71

V5.00 is available.
Download: http://www.freeotfe.org/download.html

Also - there's FreeOTFE Explorer v3.00, a separate program which doesn't need drivers.

This makes FreeOTFE truely portable unlike Truecrypt as you don't need administrator rights to use it!

Please could we include a new entry for this one as well?

The entry for truecrypt isn't right:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=199

states: "Stealth [?]: Yes" - but actually writes "LEGACY_TRUECRYPT" driver settings to the registry, and doens't clean them up afterwards -

Also the one for FreeOTFE:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=698

has: "Dependencies: Administrator rights" but with FreeOTFE Explorer, you don't need administrator rights (that's it's whole point!)

batteriesincluded wrote:... Also the one for FreeOTFE:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=698

has: "Dependencies: Administrator rights" but with FreeOTFE Explorer, you don't need administrator rights (that's it's whole point!)

There are differences between FreeOTFE and FreeOTFE Explorer
(Operation, partition support, filesystem support)
See

Think I found a way around the annoying "do you want to enable portable mode" prompt -- add this to command line parameters: You can also add "/silent" if the progress bar annoys you:

Pointing out the obvious, but you can disable this prompt by just turning it off in the options:

• "View | Options..."
• "Advanced" tab
• Click the "Autostart portable mode if FreeOTFE drivers not installed/running"

norgram wrote:Pointing out the obvious, but you can disable this prompt by just turning it off

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