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 FreeOTFE running on Windows XP | |
| Developer(s) | Sarah Dean |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 5.21
/ 7 February 2010 |
| Written in | C, Delphi (GUI) |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows and Windows Mobile |
| Available in | Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish |
| Type | Disk encryption software |
| License | Free and open-source software that requires attribution[1] |
| Website | FreeOTFE at the Wayback Machine (archived May 31, 2013) |
FreeOTFE is a discontinued open source computer program for on-the-fly disk encryption (OTFE). On Microsoft Windows, and Windows Mobile (using FreeOTFE4PDA), it can create a virtual drive within a file or partition, to which anything written is automatically encrypted before being stored on a computer's hard or USB drive. It is similar in function to other disk encryption programs including TrueCrypt and Microsoft's BitLocker.[2]
The author, Sarah Dean, went absent as of 2011. The FreeOTFE website is unreachable as of June 2013 and the domain name is now registered by a domain squatter. The original program can be downloaded from a mirror at Sourceforge. In June 2014, a fork of the project now named LibreCrypt appeared on GitHub.[3]
- ^ FreeOTFE license
- ^ David A. Karp, Windows Vista annoyances, O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008, ISBN 0-596-52762-4, page 5.
- ^ LibreCrypt on GitHub