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Amamba · 12-22-06, 01:48 PM

I used CryptoStorage but I tend to trust open source security software more. I kept hoping that TrueCrypt would do a WM version but so far they seem to be uninterested. Finally there's a FreeOTFE.

I found it here:

http://www.freeotfe.org/

So far it performed flawlessly on X51v.

Sarah Dean has been working on her OTFE software for quite a while, I exchanged emails with her a few years back, so she's not somebody who just popped up out of nowhere.

Pros: Free, open source, doesn't require installation, small footprint (*), , works in WM5, has a desktop counterpart (or rather it's the other way around

), offers sh##load of algorithms to chose from

(*) if you only keep one algorithm dll in directory. This would let a would-be attacker know what algorithm was used to encrypt the file but I don't see how knowing that the container was encrypted with AES would help anybody outside of NSA.

Cons: no timeout option; if you want to be able to use file both on PC and PPC you have to create it on PC first (you can later add to it on either platform); sluggish on file open unless you do (*) above.

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Amamba Aximsite Minor League Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 295 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Finally - a free, open source On-The-Fly-Encryption for PDA I used CryptoStorage but I tend to trust open source security software more. I kept hoping that TrueCrypt would do a WM version but so far they seem to be uninterested. Finally there's a FreeOTFE. I found it here: http://www.freeotfe.org/ So far it performed flawlessly on X51v. Sarah Dean has been working on her OTFE software for quite a while, I exchanged emails with her a few years back, so she's not somebody who just popped up out of nowhere. Pros: Free, open source, doesn't require installation, small footprint (), , works in WM5, has a desktop counterpart (or rather it's the other way around ), offers sh##load of algorithms to chose from () if you only keep one algorithm dll in directory. This would let a would-be attacker know what algorithm was used to encrypt the file but I don't see how knowing that the container was encrypted with AES would help anybody outside of NSA. Cons: no timeout option; if you want to be able to use file both on PC and PPC you have to create it on PC first (you can later add to it on either platform); sluggish on file open unless you do () above. Last edited by Amamba; 12-22-06 at 01:51 PM.*