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Mysterious announcement from Truecrypt declares the project insecure and dead
boing boing ^
| 5-29-14
| Cory Doctorow
Posted on 05/29/2014 8:06:55 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
The abrupt announcement that the widely used, anonymously authored disk-encryption tool Truecrypt is insecure and will no longer be maintained shocked the crypto world--after all, this was the tool Edward Snowden himself lectured on at a Cryptoparty in Hawai'i. Cory Doctorow tries to make sense of it all.
(Excerpt) Read more at boingboing.net ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bitlocker; cryptography; edwardsnowden; encryption; software; truecrypt
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If you are interested in the developments in privacy protection, I commend this article to you. Whole article at web link
To: aMorePerfectUnion; ShadowAce
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:08:08 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Dammit, we used it to encrypt our hard drives. This sucks!
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:11:30 PM PDT
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: max americana
All your encrypted belong to us.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:17:51 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:19:56 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: aMorePerfectUnion; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:21:11 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Disarm Hollywood! No Guns for Box Office!)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
I hate it when software becomes insecure.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:21:15 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks aMorePerfectUnion.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:21:46 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Interesting. TrueCrypt was being subjected to a
comprehensive audit when this announcement came out. The first stage of the audit
found nothing, and they had moved on to the formal cryptanalysis.
To: Kirkwood
Is there counseling for that?
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:22:42 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: SunkenCiv
You bet. We’ve gotta stick together.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:23:11 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Magnimus, 2014)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:24:41 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
To: aMorePerfectUnion
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:26:14 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Magnimus, 2014)
To: bigbob
Almost unbroken...
To: GeronL
Does this data compression algorithm make me look fat?
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:28:10 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Kirkwood
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:28:50 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Bad news, but thanks for posting.
To: aMorePerfectUnion
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:33:36 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
To: Kirkwood
What happens when the gubmint develops encryption software under another name, something like, oh, maybe “screwthensa” and makes it available to any and all? No one knows the gubmint was behind it. And the gubmint built in its own private entrance to said encryption software. Kind of a domestic Stuxnet.
If I thought of it, they have thought of it. Have they done it? I dunno.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:47:02 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
To: Bobalu
A working theory is that they were paid off or threatened; in either case, older code might still be good. I’m hanging on until more news comes in.
I trust Bitlocker up to and including not at all. It’s not that Microsoft is “bad”, but they have a lot more to lose by not “cooperating”.
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posted on
05/29/2014 8:48:01 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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