I have come to agree with them on that point. which they consider vital for emergency situations in a business or enterprise setting. They recommended it to me over TrueCrypt, months ago, before all of this TrueCrypt stuff happened, because BestCrypt offers support for their product. It came highly recommended from a consultant group I trust. I don't need to be able to look at a program's code (I wasn't going to do that anyway, and OpenSSL showed us the problem with assuming others were), I'm more interested in knowing that whoever is developing or maintaining the software has the resources to do so and will be there if something goes wrong.īestCrypt has been a pleasure to work with. I place a higher value on developer stability now.

Now, well, I've changed the way I look at these things. I would have agreed with almost everything you just wrote. Pre-heartbleed fiasco, pre-truecrypt flake out. The Truecrypt code is out there, open for review and audit (still) while these other products that we're expected to blindly trust are not. I hate to sound like the tin-foil-hat, black helicopter conspiracy theorist here but that's the reality. We're just expected to blindly accept that it's secure. I understand the concern with Truecrypt but the reality is that I doubt Symantec, Jetico and especially Microsoft would give open access to the source of their encryption technology to the community to let confirm that it's secure. Simply stated, the Truecrypt source code has been and continues to be under an exhaustive audit to find any problems and, to date, has found none. The only thing that I do want to take issue with, and only a little, is the comment Truecrypt may still be perfectly trustworthy software.

The only thing that I do want to take issue with, and only a little, is the comment Truecrypt may still be perfectly trustworthy software. You make some very good points and, though I'll pass on the Symantec option, will be very curious to hear your thoughts on Bestcrypt moving forward.

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