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- WafflePirate, on 01/28/2009, -5/+248A.K.A: Encryption that will have a back-door to allow government officials to access your data.
- sq377, on 01/28/2009, -2/+173http://www.truecrypt.org/
I think I'd rather go with an encryption I trust. - inactive, on 01/29/2009, -4/+60drive manufacturers found a surefire way for millions of drives to get bricked so people will buy a new one, and they cant complain about the dive manufacturing or get a warranty replacement.
emplyee leaves or forgets = bricked drive
stupid user = bricked
bricking virus = bricked - BossKey, on 01/28/2009, -0/+54Is this the kind of encryption where I gain security of all my data, or lose control of all my data?
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -26/+72not so fast:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7otuy ...
No one knows who wrote TrueCrypt. No one knows who maintains TC. Moderators on the TC forum ban users who ask questions. TC claims to be based on Encryption for the Masses (E4M). They also claim to be open source, but do not maintain public CVS/SVN repositories and do not issue change logs. They ban folks from the forums who ask for change logs or old source code. They also silently change binaries (md5 hashes change) with no explanation... zero. The Trademark is held by a man in the Czech Republic ((REGISTRANT) Tesarik, David INDIVIDUAL CZECH REPUBLIC Taussigova 1170/5 Praha CZECH REPUBLIC 18200.) Domains are registered private by proxy. Some folks claim it has a backdoor. Who Knows? These guys say they can find TC volumes:
http://16systems.com/TCHunt/index.html
For these reasons, I won't use it. Encryption is important and TC looks great and makes great claims, but TC should be more transparent. - CyberSally, on 01/29/2009, -0/+44I'm sure the NSA signed off on this as well.
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -0/+43Do not want
- mrsteveman1, on 01/29/2009, -1/+36Claim to be open source? Do you know what open source means?
I have the source for TC 6.1a, i've built the source into a functional binary and used it. What exactly is your problem with it? - DirtyVicar, on 01/29/2009, -0/+33Doubtful? Well look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation
The government managed to get that code installed in a lot of copiers and software with industry consent before the public got wind of it. Not that I condone counterfeiting, but the whole thing is rather insightful. - davidkshepherd, on 01/29/2009, -3/+35And in other news,
Drive manufacturers have discovered a way to ensure that if I lose the encryption key, my $800, high speed SAN disk with be worth $0.00. And I will need to buy a new one... since the used market will be destroyed...
This is a good thing overall, but I often wonder if their true motivation is security or sales. - OwdenBowden, on 01/28/2009, -2/+32Wink Wink Nudge Nudge
- yodacallmesome, on 01/28/2009, -3/+31FTA:
"...lowering the cost of production and increasing the efficiency"
"...there's no slowdown [in accessing the data]"
"...the encryption machinery uses no power."
Yeah, sure. Would you like to buy my new iPod which is powered by body heat, has infinite capacity, and will solve global warming?
But seriously. Isn't this just a way to lockdown content? That is, if they control the encryption, they can also control the content. - inactive, on 01/28/2009, -0/+25If you remember this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_Chip
Then you'll know that idea is not too far off... - PityDaFool, on 01/29/2009, -0/+23Oh good, now we only have to worry about cracking one type of encryption.
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -3/+26They are secretive because they do not want to have terrorists or governments knocking on their doors, asking (nicely?) them to help crack a TC volume.
- digitalpencil, on 01/29/2009, -1/+20my thoughts exactly..
i'll stick to 256-bit AES sparse images. - inactive, on 01/29/2009, -3/+21Coming Soon: A Crack For Disk Encryption for All Computers
Locks Keep honest people honest but if someone really wants your stuff they can usually get it. I am think about it, The CIA has been hacked so what chance do you have - kakwakas, on 01/29/2009, -0/+17Like all the warrantless wiretapping, no-knock warrants, and stuff like that?
Y'know, the stuff that everybody knows about and no one seems to be upset enough to do anything? - buckrogers1965, on 01/29/2009, -1/+17They need encrypted disks to fully implement DRM from the lowest level up.
- yoblin, on 01/28/2009, -6/+21I know, I'll just toss a picture of a masochist chained up on here to go with my article.
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -0/+14Anyone want to take bets on which country will produce the first teenage hacker to crack it?
- JekJob, on 01/29/2009, -1/+15Say no more.
- blackCascade, on 01/29/2009, -1/+14Harry Houdini
- TVarmy, on 01/29/2009, -3/+16Depends. Can you remember a password?
- doom777, on 01/29/2009, -1/+13Well, currently they need no keys, since it's unencrypted.
- BloodWenis, on 01/29/2009, -1/+13Encryption is the biggest pain in the ass ever created. I know why it's needed it certain situations. I work for a financial company that forced it down our throats, and as an IT director who deals with encryption every day:
just make sure your ***** is backed up at all times.
There will be no more driving pulling to save your precious data, recovery disks for encryption will certainly fail, incompatible BIOS's will give your data one big kick in the ass, and pushed updates will give you the same issues for a small portion of your user base. - scy1192, on 01/29/2009, -1/+13What if you don't want encryption? Like if for some reason (don't ask me why) you use that Flash drive to swap files between computers?
- TheCosmicFool, on 01/29/2009, -1/+12You got a better idea?
- inputname, on 01/29/2009, -4/+15WTF is that thumbnail?
- truck87bp, on 01/29/2009, -0/+11There is your Big Brother shoved right up your ass.
- taicho, on 01/29/2009, -1/+12http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2.php - Source.
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=version-history - Change log.
reepax...don't be such a dumb**** and research before you post or if you are just trying to discredit TrueCrypt then don't be such a dumb****. - 3tcp, on 01/29/2009, -0/+10The government should have back door access to my hard drive no more than they should have a master key that opens the front door to my house. If they want access to private information they should have to get a warrent or a supoena just like they do for anything else.
- dhughes, on 01/29/2009, -0/+10 The source code link is right on the True Crypt website
http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2.php - Metalcastr, on 01/29/2009, -0/+10Truecrypt can already make encrypted partitions. This should be an option, not forced on everybody.
- jmcal, on 01/29/2009, -0/+10I don't think I want this. It's bad enough when a regular drive goes bad....
- joshuaer, on 01/29/2009, -1/+11All i know is that Data recovery places wil have the back door key or they will go out of business. If they have the key all it will take is 1 person to post it for every one to have it and there is then no point.
- t0ny, on 01/29/2009, -0/+10In a world like that yes. But if the government has a back door then all it takes is one hacker to find it and exploit it. And if they have a back door pretty soon they would starts abusing that to do warrantless searches.
- Eulipian, on 01/29/2009, -0/+9ahem--its Erich Weiss, aka "Harry Houdini" who is pictured
- mrsteveman1, on 01/29/2009, -1/+10Everything you do on your computer is encryption worthy at this point. Everything.
- LargeStack, on 01/29/2009, -3/+10pfft I'll pass thanks
- KibibyteBrain, on 01/29/2009, -0/+7Any algorithm is only as secure as its implementation. Just because something is done claiming to use the Rijndael algorithm doesn't mean much without strict evaluation of the implementations. Lets just hope that a strict method of implementation is also part of the standard, but I'd doubt it...
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -4/+10Use a standard encryption format and you win. AES or the likes, no DRM, and transparency, and you WIN. Anything else and you can go ***** yourself.
From the looks of it, it will be quite awesome and quite transparent. The words Trusted Computing Group does not make my skin happy, but that propaganda about the TCP was mostly ***** anyway as it was just transparent binary encryption. - ConfusedCartman, on 01/29/2009, -2/+8I'd install that if I had a need for it. I don't really do anything encryption-worthy, though.
I may be missing something, but a "standard" encryption sounds fairly useless as far as encryptions go. - t0ny, on 01/29/2009, -0/+6I think he was talking about the ram hack.
- inactive, on 01/29/2009, -2/+8will my porn be safe?
- SirBruce, on 01/29/2009, -0/+6Yes, I noticed that too. Clearly, if a password is lost, there will be a way that IT professionals can invalidate the old password so the drive can be used again (with all the old data lost or still encrypted but unretrievable). However, given the first sentence, it could be that this procedure might be something not available to average consumers, but only available via a support contract with the hard drive manufacturer who tells you what to type in.
I tried reading the specifications for an answer, but none of them are written in layman's terms. - BossKey, on 01/29/2009, -0/+6*Sigh.* So you're saying that for everybody to understand the question I need to rephrase it as "Is this the kind of encryption where I get to secure my information against everyone else, or where I get to secure my information against everybody except the government?"
- choopie911, on 01/29/2009, -3/+9Anyone else think that hackers everywhere are wetting their pants in hopes this goes through? Hey guys, we only need one key to every house in the city!
- teh_techie, on 01/29/2009, -1/+6There seems to be conflicting statements in this article. " If you don't have that (password), it's a brick. You can't even sell it on eBay." versus the later assertion, "IT departments will also be able to repurpose drives using the encryption standard by cryptographically erasing them with a few keystrokes". I believe the later is the only practical purpose, and the first statement to be marketing fluff written by someone with a limited understanding of the underlying technology standards. This article would be better served by just comparing the hardware standard to the existing capabilities we use with software applications doing the same thing.
- CaptOblivious, on 01/29/2009, -0/+5I can't imagine why loosing the password would "brick" the drive.
You loose all your data, but you can reformat with a new password. -
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