Scramdisk is a free On-the-fly encryption program for Windows 95

Windows 95

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products...

, Windows 98

Windows 98

Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on 15 May 1998 and to retail on 25 June 1998. Windows 98 is the successor to Windows 95. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid...

, and Windows Me

Windows Me

Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me , is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006....

. A non-free version was also available for Windows NT

Windows NT

Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...

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The original Scramdisk is no longer maintained; its author, Shaun Hollingworth, joined Paul Le Roux (the author of E4M

E4M

Encryption for the Masses is a free disk encryption software for Windows NT/9x/Me. E4M is no longer maintained; its author, Paul Le Roux, joined Shaun Hollingworth to produce E4M's commercial successor, DriveCrypt....

) to produce Scramdisk's commercial successor, DriveCrypt. Although Scramdisk's source code is still available, it was only released and licenced for private study and not for further development.

There is a new project called ScramDisk 4 Linux which provides access to Scramdisk and TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a software application used for on-the-fly encryption . It is free and open source. It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or the entire storage device .- Operating systems :TrueCrypt supports Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and...

 containers.

See also

• Disk encryption
  Disk encryption
  Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage media is a sector-addressable device . This article presents cryptographic aspects of the problem...
  
  
• Disk encryption software
  Disk encryption software
  To protect confidentiality of the data stored on a computer disk a computer security technique called disk encryption is used. This article discusses software that is used to implement the technique...
  
  
• Comparison of disk encryption software
  Comparison of disk encryption software
  -Background information:-Operating systems:-Features:* Hidden containers: Whether hidden containers can be created for deniable encryption...
  
  

External links

• Scramdisk @ SamSimpson.com - Original ScramDisk web site from the Internet Archive
• Official WWW site - though ScramDisk no longer available
• ScramDisk 4 Linux