Friday, 22. May 2009
Full steam ahead! An image from Google’s patent application for a floating data center that uses wave and tidal power generators.
More info at Treehugger
(Credit: Google)
Saturday, 19. July 2008
TrueCrypt version 6.0 encryption utility has more features than ever before, it protect and hide the most critical data on your hard drives. TrueCrypt is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows. The basic concept of TrueCrypt is “plausible deniability” which kick away the hackers who try to examines your hard drive, and try to get your password, they could not be able to find all of the encrypted data.
Anyone who employ a variety of method to achieve this won’t able to get the critical data, starting with the fact that you can hide a TrueCrypt-encrypted file system inside of any file. It also enable you to “hide volume” on the drive – a TrueCrypt volume inside another TrueCrypt volume. TrueCrypt use different algorithms for its encryption which include AES, Serpent, TwoFish, and combinations of these. The developers have dropped the support for algorithms that have been significantly weakened over the software’s lifetime.
There are two major upgrades in version 6.0. First, TrueCrypt now performs analogous encryption and decryption operations on multi-core systems, which give you speedup and in case if you have more than one processor, it has ability to hide an entire OS, so even if you’re enforced to disclose your pre-boot password to an adversary, you can give them one that boots into a plausible decoy OS and thus your hidden operating system absolutely undetectable.
TrueCrypt is best if you travel often with your laptop, and it contains any sensitive information from your address book or most vital records and data, a serious encryption is your best protection in case you loss your laptop. It also remembers a few passwords, and installing a well-tested open source package, TrueCrypt is always worth to use.