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Truecrypt 6.0 finally supports parallelized encryption/decryption on multi-core processors and the ability to create and run an encrypted hidden operating system whose existence is impossible to prove.

As you can see, parallelized operations boost the speed tremendously on my Q6600 system with a pretty standard MB and RAM. Finally some useful perk that comes from having a quad core system I guess. Mean speed used to be 85-87 MB/s at best and is now around 340 MB/s.

This could mean that other schemes besides AES, which I think most people use, will be feasible since the processing speed will no longer be the bottleneck. But as you can see, AES defeats the competition even more soundly in this implementation and so it will probably still be the algorithm of choice for most benchmark lovers. It will be interesting to see the results on my other dual core (Wolfdale) system, which scored really, really well in Truecrypt 5.

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Encrypt and resist!