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[Discussion] Best encryption software available to the public
I'd like to hear everyones thoughts on their preferred or recommended encryption software.




Well, I guess I'd suggest GPG as being the gold standard in terms of cryptographically verifying messages and encryption/decryption, it's both open-source and widely used. It suffers greatly from a usability standpoint though. There are things like OTR by Cypherpunks for Pidgin, that works quite nicely.
It depends on what you want and the level of the user I guess, I mean crypto-software for messaging is going to be a different beast than say something for encrypting data at rest.
I've had plenty of success with VeraCrypt (a fork of TrueCrypt) for encrypting larger volumes of data.
Mobile-wise there's WhatsApp, that does a pretty good job of end-to-end encryption. I'm aware of the recent claims made by McAfee et al, but those attacks seemed to rely on a corruption of the underlying system, not WhatsApp's encryption itself.
Surespot looks pretty neat too, it's also open source