Free Windows BitLocker Alternatives for Linux

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   VeraCrypt

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   Ensure your data's security by encrypting entire partitions, storage devices, or system drives with VeraCrypt. Benefit from transparent and automatic real-time encryption, hardware acceleration on modern processors, and robust security algorithms that are resistant to brute-force attacks.

   71 VeraCrypt alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Disk Encryption

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • PortableApps.com
   • Homebrew
   • Chocolatey

   

   

   

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   Nicolas

   Positive comment•Dec 7, 2020

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   Available for free on any Windows version (Windows Home or Family)

   yuriykaz

   Positive comment•Jul 6, 2021

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   BitLocker is great, but it is a part of the Windows Pro and above, so for Home users VeraCrypt is a super great option + it works on Mac and Linux. Easy to use!

   Guest

   Positive comment•Aug 24, 2016

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   Windows and Linux platform :)

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • VeraCrypt is Free and Open SourceWindows BitLocker is Paid and Proprietary
   • VeraCrypt is Privacy focusedWindows BitLocker is not according to our users
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   TrueCrypt

    876 likes

   [TrueCrypt is not exactly "Open Source", but the source is available. See the reviews to get more information.]

   108 TrueCrypt alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Disk Encryption

   Origin

   • United States

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   

   

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   Guest

   Positive comment•May 16, 2018

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   Extremely reliable under any condition even on Win XP SP2

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   Guest

   Negative comment•Feb 1, 2016

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   Does not support a centralised/managed deployment administration.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   Guest

   Positive comment•Aug 19, 2018

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   True Crypt Is Awesome, until now in 2018

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • TrueCrypt is Free and ProprietaryWindows BitLocker is Paid and Proprietary
   • TrueCrypt is Security-focusedWindows BitLocker is not according to our users
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   LUKS

    54 likes

   LUKS is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it does not only facilitate compatibility among distributions, but also provides secure management of multiple user passwords.

   47 LUKS alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Disk Encryption

   Origin

   • Austria
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   File Lock PEA

    14 likes

   Platform-independent password-based authenticated encryption of files & folders.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application types

   • File Encryption Software
   • Disk Encryption

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

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   GostCrypt

    2 likes

   The Gostcrypt project has been launched at the end of 2013 as fork of the (late) Truecrypt project.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   RealCrypt

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   The realcrypt application in the RPM Fusion repo is an encryption application based on truecrypt, freely available at http://www.truecrypt.org/. It differs from truecrypt in only the following ways:

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Disk Encryption

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   eCryptfs

    16 likes

   The enterprise cryptographic filesystem for Linux.

   36 eCryptfs alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Disk Encryption

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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    Luksus

     6 likes

    LUKSUS is a tool that creates an encrypted volume and filesystem on a hardrive or other storage media as well as a filecontainer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • TrueCrypt

    

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    EncFS

     25 likes

    EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. You can find links to source and binary releases below.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • International

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    Zed!

     3 likes

    Zed! protects your personal and sensitive data in encrypted archives on e-mail, on USB sticks and in backups.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • France
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad

    

    

    

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    Seahorse

     25 likes

    Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys and passwords in the GNOME Keyring.

    33 Seahorse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Password Manager

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GnuPG
    • Flathub
    • GNOME

    

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    Xecrets Ez

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    Xecrets Ez is an easy to use personal desktop application available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is 100% compatible with AxCrypt, but is less complex without the bells and whistles.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Origin

    • Sweden
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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