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Wire is a communication application mainly focused on privacy. Wire is available for almost every platform Linux, Windows, Mac and mobile devices, its applications across all platforms uniformly use state-of-the-art encryption mechanisms that are recognized as reliable by experts and the community.
Wire offers end-to-end encrypted text messaging, video, voice calls and media, all conversation are private and secured, all conversations are available on multiple devices and platforms without weakening security.
Conversation content is encrypted with strong encryption on the sender’s device and only decrypted on the recipient’s device. Wire doesn’t hold the decryption keys and our software contains no backdoor. Your data is your data — Wire has no access to it. Users can verify digital identity of other users using fingerprint comparison.
Text messages and pictures use Proteus for end-to-end encryption. Voice and video calls use the WebRTC standard. More precisely DTLS is used for key negotiation and authentication and SRTP is used for encrypted media transport. The encryption works transparently in the background and doesn’t need to be activated first. It doesn’t get in the way of usability or reduce the feature set and avoids the complexity that is common to secure messengers.
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Features:
  • Wire is open source, free and cross-platform
  • No ads and No data sharing with advertisers
  • No profiling or data gathering and No contact sharing required
  • Phone number not required. Email sign-up available.
  • Access to address book not required
  • Always-on verifiable end-to-end encryption
  • Multi-device support for end-to-end encryption
  • End-to-end encrypted group chats
  • End-to-end encrypted calls on mobile and desktop
  • End-to-end encrypted group calls
  • End-to-end encrypted screen sharing
  • Constant bitrate encoding (CBR) for audio calls
  • End-to-end encrypted share extension
  • Edit and delete end-to-end encrypted messages
  • Swiss-based, protected under European laws

Available for Debian/Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/and other Debian and Ubuntu derivatives
To Install Wire Desktop Client in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:


That's it
If you are sensitive about your digital data then you must know about Truecrypt(discontinued), a good utility which is no more available and not recommended to use because there are some security issues and won't be fixed. TrueCrypt was initially released as version 1.0 in February 2004, based on E4M (Encryption for the Masses). Several versions and many additional minor releases have been made since then, with the most current version being 7.1a, released 7th of February 2012. On 28th of May 2014, the TrueCrypt official website, began redirecting visitors to truecrypt.sourceforge.net and telling users to use BitLocker.
After end of life of Truecrypt, we see many forks of Truecrypt came as alternatives. Veracrypt is one of them and seems promising to continue development of the product. All issues have been addressed in Veracrypt which were found in Truecrypt and many others, since it is in development we see releases of Veracrypt from time to time, the most recent release of Veracrypt was on August 9th, 2015.
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX and based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. VeraCrypt picks up from where TrueCrypt left and it adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt.
This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data. VeraCrypt also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt. It can load TrueCrypt volume and it offers the possibility to convert TrueCrypt containers and non-system partitions to VeraCrypt format.
You can get more detailed info about the Veracrypt on wikipedia

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There is also an unofficial PPA available, which can be used in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.x/17/and other Ubuntu derivatives (This PPA is not even endorsed by authors of VeraCrypt).

What's your favorite encryption tool?
Protect your flash drives by encryption on Ubuntu/Linux Mint. The Purpose of encryption to secure your data which is in your USB flash drive. If you encrypt your flash drive and you misplace/lost it than you don't need to worry about leakage/stole of your sensitive data because your encrypted flash drive wouldn't be accessible without password, To access the data of flash you must enter password which is set on the time of encryption data. Easiest way to secure your flash drive on Ubuntu/Linux Mint.

To install open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

After installation follow steps:
Now open "Disk Utility" go to dash or (Press Alt+F2 and type "palimpsest") to start Disk Utility.

1: First Unmount Flash Drive:
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2: Than Format Volume
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3: Now Set password
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Now write data on your flash and Enjoy.