The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.

For summary see the following web site "TRUECRYPT: WHAT HAPPENED? WHO CARES? WHAT’S NEXT?"

TrueCrypt for Mac OS X

By: David Adams, University of Utah - Revised: 2014-01-23 richard

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Introduction

TrueCrypt for Mac OS X - by Dave Adams, University of Utah

Dave discussed the pros and cons of TrueCrypt for Mac OS X and demonstration on its use.

TrueCrypt
Is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. It supports on-the-fly-encryption (OTFE) and it can create a "file-hosted container" or write a partition which consists of an encrypted volume with its own file system, contained within a regular file, which can then be mounted as if it were a real disk. It supports encryption algorithms: AES-256, Serpent, and Twofish. And mode of operation: XTS.

The Mac OS X version uses MacFUSE to provide user-mode mounting of the encrypted disk. The main application window gives you a simple interface for creating and mounting encrypted images.

Update

WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.

For summary see the following web site:

TRUECRYPT: WHAT HAPPENED? WHO CARES? WHAT’S NEXT?