The TrueCrypt developers have scheduled the release of v5.0 for Januari Februari 2008. This release will also have Mac OSX version. Now we're getting somewhere. Finally, true cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and OSX) encryption, and it's completely free.
TrueCrypt 5.0
Release scheduled for: January 2008
- Windows system partition encryption with pre-boot authentication
- Mac OS X version
- GUI for Linux versions of TrueCrypt
- Parallelized and pipelined read/write
- and more.
The following features are planned to be implemented in future versions:
- Support for external authentication modules (cryptographic tokens)
- 'Raw' CD/DVD volumes
- TrueCrypt API
- and more.