How to encrypt contents of a USB drive on Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop and then be able to decrypt it on any other Linux Machine?

I see Truecrypt being offered as a solution to an earlier question on this site. But, the Truecrypt landing page shows following warning now:

WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

Is there an alternative free open source disk encryption software that may be used across various Linux systems?

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VeraCrypt is a good alternative. It's a fork of TrueCrypt which is still maintained. It's not in the ubuntu repos, but you can download and install it at their website.

There are other ways to do this as well, including LUKS and encrypted file systems, but VeraCrypt is simple and effective.

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