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If you're not so serious that you're willing to manually encrypt and decrypt files (or ZIP archives of files), just use your OS's full disk encryption scheme. On a Mac, for instance, you can create virtual disks with AES-XTS and keys derived from passwords; that's built into the OS.
What people really want is some kind of transparent encrypted filesystem. That's a reasonable thing to want, and it would be more secure than Truecrypt. I don't know of a good one.
It'd also be nice if it were cross-platform, since lots of people do use different operating systems during their day. I know I do. :)
Over the weekend I was looking at some of the commercial products that are positioning themselves as TC replacements. And most of them are a little too close to the military/govt for my comfort. I'd rather have something open source just for the ability to inspect the code, if nothing else.
Isn't that the promise of FileVault on a Mac? Is that not under discussion here because it's not good, or because it's not cross-platform? (In other words, should I not trust FileVault?)
For starters, how would we know? The software in question is closed-source and has spotty docs as best - and more importantly: your trust in a software is something that only you can establish for yourself, irregardless if whatever number of people on the internet claim the product trustworthy.
Appelbaum on FileVault(1) in 2006: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1244...
