At this moment a complementing utility for the TrueCrypt® encryption solution, offering you a convenient way to transfer arbitrary numbers of files and directories into a new volume file. The size of the final container will be exactly of the space needed. This os done fast and straight, by creating the file system structures in the encrypted container on-the-fly - no second pass needed.
In other words: you can take a bunch of files and create a .tc file out of them right away. TruPax
* creates file containers in the open UDF format, mountable on many modern operating systems.
* created containers are writable on the more recent systems (Windows 7, OSX, Linux).
* runs on any operating system where the Java™ 6 runtime is available.
* is a completely new implemention of the TrueCrypt encryption technology.
* uses all processor cores to do its job as fast as possible.
* writes container files in just one pass. No seeking.
* is free to use. No charges. No spyware either.
* source code is available for review. No hiding.
The project is fairly new, more things to come soon.
I saw this news last night but I must confess I didn't really understand what it does exactly that TrueCrypt itself doesn't.
Now I see that it doesn't need admin rights to create a container with the files you want. But it needs Java and this is not good at all for portability (one can always have the portable version of Java on the stick, but still...).
What I really wanted to see was a better/newer version of TCExplorer.
This appears to solve the problem of guessing how big you need the volume to be to hold all your files. With TrueCrypt, you sort of have to guess what size the volume is supposed to be, which is confusing because how many kilobytes go into a megabyte? Go into a gigabyte? Its not impossible to ascertain but there's nothing automatic in TrueCrypt to figure this out for you.
I think its a bit like creating an encrypted ZIP file: you choose some files or folders and then add them to a zip and the resulting ZIP file is as small as possible. What's interesting is that, assuming this project is successful, TrueCrypt is becoming the standard for encrypted containers.
Doesn't seem to require admin priviledges and uses a VERY portable file system (I didn't even know TrueCrypt could do this).
Unfortunately, it requires Java. Hopefully it knows how to use PortableJava or can be run in the PortableApps JAR launcher.
04/17/2011 - TruPax 3 A
* New: launch .cmd files for 64bit Windows
* Fixed: GUI always skipped empty directories
* Fixed: GUI shut down on encountering inaccessible directories
03/28/2011 - TruPax 3
* New: wiping after volume creation
* Fix: GUI version way faster/usable under Linux
* Fix: label box input in GUI wasn't always taken over properly
Old thread update: Now up to version 6 and available for Linux and Windows (and 64-bit on both). Though the code is open source, the license is unclear, so I'd assume at this point it's just regular copyright.
Old thread update: even a casual glance over this program suggests that it's run it's course. As the program merely generated TrueCrypt containers and TrueCrypt is discontinued, this program is also effectively offline.
Like TrueCrypt, it probably still has some uses and users, but the github site is inactive and there doesn't appear to be much happening on the home page.
webfork wrote:Old thread update: even a casual glance over this program suggests that it's run it's course. As the program merely generated TrueCrypt containers and TrueCrypt is discontinued, this program is also effectively offline.
Like TrueCrypt, it probably still has some uses and users, but the github site is inactive and there doesn't appear to be much happening on the home page.
TruPaxRelease Notes show that the latest version (9 A) is from 2016.11.26 so the program may not be abandoned, most likely the developer has abandoned TruPax GitHub page. Since version 9TruPax supports VeraCrypt ("Support for VeraCrypt containers.") so the program may not be that useless.
