TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted data storage device (hard drive, usb thumb drive, etc).

On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention. No data stored on an encrypted volume can be read (decrypted) without using the correct password/keyfile(s) or correct encryption keys. The entire file system is encrypted – file names, folder names, contents of every file, free space, meta data, etc.

Files can be copied to and from a mounted TrueCrypt volume just like they are copied to/from any normal disk, the files are automatically decrypted on-the-fly.

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Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage’s ftp password, online passwords, etc. The list is endless.

KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.

You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database.

The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).

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