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Why is it that Truecrypt cannot be configured to be 100% portable, unlike other Encryption Software?
Is it really that hard to do?
You cannot really use Truecrypt on computers unless you have admin rights or Truecrypt needs to be first "installed" there by someone else.
I know you can have definite answers on this, but why is it that other encryption software can be configured to work 100% portable, and Truecrypt cannot?
Truecrypt can be portable it just requires administrator permissions. Since it requires administrator permissions to install on the system this single requirement isn't that big of a deal. – Ramhound – 2013-08-27T17:01:42.840
@ Ramhound: It is really big for us. We intend to use Truecrypt at workplace, wherein IT Dept won't allow us any installations. By the way, what is that "single requirement?" To have Truecrypt installed on the system? Or just a specific driver written on the registry? – Multi Boot – 2013-08-27T17:21:24.197
Administrator permissions as explained in this article http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/truecrypt-portable if IT will not user installed software there is likely a good reason. Bitlocker is portable on any Windows installation after Windows Vista. If IT won't enabled Bitlocker or install Truecrypt there is likely a good reason, and it likely, is in the interest of the company NOT to use a portable encryption solution.
– Ramhound – 2013-08-27T18:11:26.393@ Ramhound : In the case of my company, they allow us to have our private files stored on each of our PC, provided that there will be no installations of any type, actually, we can do anything we want, that is the only condition, no installation of any type can be made since all the PC are locked, we are using it, like of a guest account. With that in mind, most of us are using Safehouse Explorer which is truly 100% portable. My only concern is that Safehouse is a proprietary software, which means closed-source. I don't feel safe using closed-sourced encryption, it might have some backdoors. – Multi Boot – 2013-08-27T18:31:10.617
If you don't have administrator permissions you can't use Truecrypt at all technically – Ramhound – 2013-08-27T19:14:22.517