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<title><![CDATA[By: Rene]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[#78 Thank you for support!

Sure, understanding the source code logic is needed as well. Even if 'advanced' open source user manages to build the software product from the source, in 99.9% of cases he won't examine the source code just because it will take from days to weeks to understand what is under the hood.

So I see no point in blindly defending the point of view that open source products are more robust and secure. Does anybody know the names of well-known security experts who examined the source code of the specific open source product? I guess nobody does.

To the contrary, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains the official list of certified software implementations of AES cipher available here:
<a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm" rel="nofollow">Current list of FIPS 140 validated cryptographic modules with validated AES implementations</a>

For some strange reason I don't see there any references to open source software being actively defended here and other forums ;-)

I suppose this eliminates all the myths.

If someone don't like the idea of paying for software (I think this is the case for many open source followers), they can freely use open source products. This is their freedom of choice. But to my mind, saying that open source is better than commercial software only because it is open source without providing any verifiable arguments is at least wrong.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:08:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Convinced -Rene is Right-]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93568</link>
<description><![CDATA[#77 Rene, I think you're so right about this and it was about time that this was shared with the general public.

When open source offers software for free, that is an important property appealing to those with a small purse. A forum to address your problems will be good enough. While a business wants someone to be responsible for problems with the software. It will not accept best effort by a forum.

Compiling your own executables is one thing, but understanding the programming from the source is another I might add to Rene's comment.

Suppose you are able to compile the executable from the source like Rene stated, will you also closely examen the source, some backdoor might be coded there aswell.
Open Source community will defend by saying everybody can look into it, even rocket-scientists, but do they?
And if they do, are you sure that the original source code is published at the site where you are?

Do you think this is plain paranoia. Wel thinking only Open Source is save is paranoia too by the same standards.

The best thing to do is getting the software that gets your stuff done because of the properties it has (Rene gave examples) and get it from a descent site (i.e. not a pirate-site) with some trustable track-record.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:18:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Rene]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93567</link>
<description><![CDATA[Many people commented that open source software is 'more secure and reliable' in all aspects. I would like to ask a simple question to these guys: why are you so sure about this?

TO CLAIM THAT SOME OPEN SOURCE PRODUCT IS SAFER THAN A COMMERCIAL ONE, YOU MUST COMPILE AND BUILD IT FROM THE SOURCE CODE and use the resulting binaries on your machine. I'm almost sure that hardly anyone of you had ever done that. All that you did was just install the already built installation package.

To begin with, you can't know for sure whether it was built from the same source code that is published on the project's site unless you are the site's owner. So I would not judge about product's value only by whether it's free or not.

Without doubt Truecrypt is a good software. But as any other software project it has its specific audience. Other products (including commercial ones) have their own.

Personally, I like the features provided by TrueCrypt, but its user interface and usability in general are far away from ideal. The most obvious disadvantage of many open source projects is the lack of any support. If you got into trouble, depending on how lucky you are you may find the solution in community forums. Nobody will care about your personal trouble. In case of commercial software you will have somebody to whine to. At least you'll receive apologizes from the vendor :-)

So, before crying out of loud 'TrueCrypt and open source rules' at every corner, I suggest you to take a look at other products such as already mentioned Paragon Encrypted Drive and these ones:

<a href="http://www.aldenate.com/products/securedisk/" rel="nofollow">Aldenate Secure Disk</a>

<a href="http://www.jetico.com/enterprise-data-protection/" rel="nofollow">Jetico BestCrypt</a>
<a href="http://www.pgp.com/products/index.html#desktop-apps" rel="nofollow">PGP Whole Disk Encryption</a>

In my opinion, these products have their unique features that you will not find in any open source product. For instance, try to create a container larger than 4GB on a FAT volume in TrueCrypt. Aldenate Secure Disk allows doing this without hassle and can create dynamic sized images. Imagine how long will it take to create 1 TB (Terabyte) container in TrueCrypt? Days? Weeks? It takes seconds in Aldenate's solution.
The ability to encrypt your system drive was implemented in PGP long before it was done in TrueCrypt. So the facts say that TrueCrypt is not the only one solution on this planet :-)]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:00:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: hira]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93566</link>
<description><![CDATA[saalam nice work download free registered softwares]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:12:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Sherman]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93565</link>
<description><![CDATA[Before I start my review, I always use a virgin VHD while testing software to avoid hosing my system, and ensure that my evaluations are not tainted by other installed applications.

Program installed with out incident on both Windows 7 RC 32-bit and Windows Vista 32-bit SP2.

The Windows Shell Extensions in Windows 7 results in numerous crashes of explorer.exe

Use of this application produced a noticeable slowdown of the whole operating system, this is even more noticeable while using the encrypt on the fly options.

As is true with all Paragon software the uninstall leaves behind, unnecessary folders, dll files, and numerous registry entries.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:13:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93564</link>
<description><![CDATA[#57, mike, I do agree that key strength is very important.  However, most encryption apps support a combination of keyfiles and keys.  This gives the strongest security--something you know, plus something you have.  Additionally, this provides some protection from keyloggers.  Of course, keyfiles must be backed up.  It's best to keep keyfiles on a USB flash drive attached to your keychain--that way, you won't leave it.  Most security apps keep the keys in RAM until you terminate the session, so you can remove the drive/card containing the keyfile.  Of course, drives/cards can have their own encryption.  What a keyfile consists of depends on the app.  TrueCrypt will take anything, including multiple keyfiles.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:01:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Laptop57]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93563</link>
<description><![CDATA[Downloaded twice, also tried mirror link, tried setup after having disabled G-Data firewall and Avira Antivir for 5 min., but always get "Failed to connect. Please try again later". Can anybody help please?
Thanks a lot!]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:23:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93562</link>
<description><![CDATA[#55, mike, I have to disagree with some of your assessments.  I've never worked anywhere where it was necessary to hide my work from co-workers who might "steal" it, I worked in cooperative environments (well, OK, some people are difficult to work with).  User accounts and passwords are sufficient for the trivial cases you suggest.  There are numerous ways to limit what particular accounts can do, an easy way on Vista and higher is Parental Controls.  If you need serious security, then you need serious encryption, and the open-source solutions are the only ones which qualify.  "Hiding" encrypted disks is a load of crap, I think the security "experts" have seen too many B-movies.  You might be able to hide stuff from your mother or a drunken college roommate, but not from anyone with any knowledge of computers.  Files containing apparently random data are a clear tip-off that they're encrypted, no matter what filename or extension they have.  You can't really hide encrypted partitions--again, you would have apparently random data occupying part of the disk, reducing space available for unencrypted partitions.  No one pays for a hard disk and fails to allocate all of it to usable partitions.  As for someone serious enough to kidnap you, torture your passwords out of you, and kill you when they've got them, do you really think that they wouldn't notice that you gave them a password to a decoy OS which doesn't occupy the entire disk?  As for steganography, there are mathematical ways to determine its presence.  TrueCrypt's strength isn't that it "hides" stuff, but that it's secure, which proprietary solutions can't guarantee, high-performance, and can optionally encrypt the system volume.

For many simple cases, file/folder encryption like AxCrypt is not only sufficient, but may be preferable to an OTFE solution, both from a performance and space-allocation perspective.  FreeOTFE and AxCrypt both have no-install executables which can read their files.

Encrypted Disk doesn't create PNF files, nor does it backup INF/PNF files and drivers.  INF files are setup INFormation files, PNF files are corresponding Precompiled versions which Windows creates for performance.  Driver rollback is a feature of XP and higher, which creates backups when new drivers are installed.

I have no problem with companies charging money for innovative products, but there's nothing to be gained from developing inferior solutions to well-established open-source software products.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:35:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: who said that]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93561</link>
<description><![CDATA[AS much as i like Paragon Software &amp; I do. much, I'm skipping this one I don't have much to hide on my PC and I use only Vista Ultimate which has an update called "Bit Locker", I can encrypt my entire drive with that in a few minutes without sweating "how am I gonna gain back my access?"
I also have 2 independent data backups on other drives, just in case. yep, I'm a backup junkie, not an encrypt/hide junkie! I can do it all with Ultimate, including a complete drive image hat DOES return a stable system. Something I couldn't ever say with a 3rd party drive imaging application. If you think you mihjt have need for todays offer, grab a copy. Paragon is a quality vendor!]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:10:43 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Ursula]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/paragon-encrypted-disk-40/#comment-93560</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well, this program has Blowfish. Does TrueCrypt have this algorithm option?? I didn't see it on their site.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:24:52 -0400</pubDate>
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