Review: Bestcrypt Lives Up To Its Name With Excellent Features

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 20 December 2012 - 03:20 PM

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#2 oldnuke69

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Posted 21 December 2012 - 09:12 AM

If you really need encryption, you also need to be absolutely sure it works and has no back door. Unless the software is open source so that experts can (and have) evaluated the source code to determine the algorithms are properly implemented, and that no back door is present, no one should use it. Trust of closed source encryption software has no place in the business world.

#3 oldschoolh4ck3r

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Posted 21 December 2012 - 12:51 PM

Yes, I agree with oldnuke69. I will never use anything but an open-source encryption app to handle my data. It doesn't matter how good the closed-source app is, I can't trust it.

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#4 jcolt

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Posted 21 December 2012 - 01:05 PM

Okay, if it's THAT good, let's see an unbiased comparison side-by-side test with TrueCrypt...

#5 MisterC

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Posted 22 December 2012 - 02:44 AM

I havn't tried this, but what I've seen from other similar tools, none gives good directions on how to protect the pc from someone getting the encryption key through a DMA-attack.

The user should be warned upon setup if the pc runs with sleep-mode instead of hibernation and that Firewire, Thunderbolt and ExpressCard opens the DMA-door

#6 Tayvl

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Posted 10 April 2013 - 04:07 AM

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They don't need to give away their proprietary code for "experts" to try and defeat it. All the "experts" need to do is try to get in. If I'm not mistaken, nobody has done that yet, and the software has been sold for years.

#7 delmanov

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Posted 10 April 2013 - 04:10 AM

II have carefully studied the issue. And I compared the different programs.
BestCrypt - the most powerful and secure solution today.

BestCrypt has protection from DMA as much as possible. See description.

Encryption modules are open source. User can make their own encryption module.

The presence of open source (as in TrueCrypte) can guarantee security only if you yourself are compiling an executable. And before that, check all lines of program code. Who of us does it?