Equipped To Survive Equipped To Survive® Presents
The Survival Forum
Where do you want to go on ETS?

Page 3 of 3 < 1 2 3
Topic Options
#270231 - 06/02/14 12:55 PM Re: TrueCrypt is not secure. [Re: Mark_R]
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 08/03/07
Posts: 3078


Quote:
If the NSA want's your stuff, the NSA will get your stuff


Depends if you have a BBC micro computer with an LCD monitor (generate your plain text securely) and a hardware encryption/decryption controller with your own encryption/decryption encoder/decoder algorithm on a PICchip micro controller box with an RS432 interface (talks to the BBC micro) to a removable USB flash memory (encrypted files stored on a flash memory card such as an SD card).
You can then send your encrypted files via VPN tunnel or email attachment or upload to FTP server, digital radio modem, direct PSTN modem, infra-red port on a Ericsson SH888 GSM cellular phone etc.
You can even use a DOS program to embed into the noise floor the encryption data of a lossless music file or picture file such as a BMP for hiding in plain sight.
That should keep the NSA on its toes. wink

Top
#270509 - 06/18/14 03:35 AM Re: TrueCrypt is not secure. [Re: Teslinhiker]
Teslinhiker Offline
Veteran

Registered: 12/14/09
Posts: 1418
Loc: Nothern Ontario

Looks like this new group named CipherShed has taken on maintaining and developing a fork of Truecrypt. They seem a bit more organized then the team at TCnext who are already appearing to be suffering from some infighting.

Hopefully CipherShed takes the lead on this. I am not a computer geek by any means but the world of cryptography is one area I enjoy reading and learning about so I will be following this development close.
_________________________
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock

Top
#270511 - 06/18/14 04:21 AM Re: TrueCrypt is not secure. [Re: Teslinhiker]
chaosmagnet Online   content
Sheriff
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 12/03/09
Posts: 3821
Loc: USA
TrueCrypt helped a lot of people solve a serious security problem. I'm happy to see that there are community-based development efforts to not let it die. I will also be following this closely.

Top
#270515 - 06/18/14 11:24 AM Re: TrueCrypt is not secure. [Re: Teslinhiker]
Eugene Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 12/26/02
Posts: 2995
FWIW, I've found several other methods to use TrueCrypt containers as its popularity sort of made it become an unofficial standard.

I'm not too concerned about the "may be insecure" message as that is standard text in the IT risk world. Words like may, shall, must are key in risk policy and standards and the reality is that any software may be insecure.

Top
#270522 - 06/18/14 01:46 PM Re: TrueCrypt is not secure. [Re: Eugene]
yee Offline
Member

Registered: 12/10/11
Posts: 169
From a cryptoanalysis point of view, there are two means to attack the enemies cryptosystems.

1. break the system through a weakness

2. convince the enemy that you already have broken the system when you can't find a weakness in hopes that they switch to a weaker system you can break.

As far as I am aware, we have absolutely NO information which one of the two applies.

Top
Page 3 of 3 < 1 2 3



Moderator:  Alan_Romania, Blast, chaosmagnet, cliff 
April
Su M Tu W Th F Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
Who's Online
1 registered (chaosmagnet), 458 Guests and 10 Spiders online.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Newest Members
Explorer9, GallenR, Jeebo, NicholasMarshall, Yadav
5368 Registered Users
Newest Posts
Corny Jokes
by wildman800
Yesterday at 10:40 AM
People Are Not Paying Attention
by Jeanette_Isabelle
04/19/24 07:49 PM
USCG rescue fishermen frm deserted island
by brandtb
04/17/24 11:35 PM
Silver
by brandtb
04/16/24 10:32 PM
EDC Reduction
by Jeanette_Isabelle
04/16/24 03:13 PM
New York Earthquake
by chaosmagnet
04/09/24 12:27 PM
Bad review of a great backpack..
by Herman30
04/08/24 08:16 AM
Our adorable little earthquake
by Phaedrus
04/06/24 02:42 AM
Newest Images
Tiny knife / wrench
Handmade knives
2"x2" Glass Signal Mirror, Retroreflective Mesh
Trade School Tool Kit
My Pocket Kit
Glossary
Test

WARNING & DISCLAIMER: SELECT AND USE OUTDOORS AND SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES AND TECHNIQUES AT YOUR OWN RISK. Information posted on this forum is not reviewed for accuracy and may not be reliable, use at your own risk. Please review the full WARNING & DISCLAIMER about information on this site.