[aklug] Re: Heckuvu short in the arm for Truecrypt

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Sat Jun 26 2010 - 22:48:30 AKDT

On Saturday 26 June 2010, Jim Gribbin elucidated thus:
> "The FBI failed to break the encryption code of hard drives seized by
> federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas,..."
>
> "... the two programs used in the equipment are available online. One
> is called Truecrypt and is free..."
>
> http://g1.globo.com/English/noticia/2010/06/not-even-fbi-can-de-crypt
>-files-daniel-dantas.html
>
> Trucrypt is available in the standard Fedora repositories under the
> name Realcrypt. The package desription states that it is Truecrypt,
> they just had to re-brand it to make some changes. I would imagine it
> is available for most other distros as well.

There is always Linux's full-drive encryption too. I run that on my
laptop. Full crypt->LVM->file systems. You have to enter a password
to even boot. I like it.

j

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