Konstantin Kalishko
Important data can easily be protected against unauthorized access using encrypted containers. Tomb is a potential replacement for the now discontinued TrueCrypt, and it performs its job elegantly just using Linux's onboard tools and standard processes.
Current Linux distributions make it easy to use encryption to secure your home directory against prying eyes. But encrypting whole partitions also has some drawbacks: First, you need to decide whether to encrypt whole partitions when installing the system. Second, encryption makes data recovery more difficult if you cannot boot the system.
Swapping an encrypted partition out to another disk is also tricky. Many users thus prefer to use encrypted containers like the ones that you can (or used to be able to) create and integrate with TrueCrypt [1], for example.
The TrueCrypt developers surprisingly stopped working on the software when support for Windows XP ended. They said that TrueCrypt wasn't secure because it might contain unfixed vulnerabilities.
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