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

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Sun Jun 27 2010 - 21:16:30 AKDT

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On 06/27/10 23:51, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> That was supposed to be "shot in the arm", not short. Oh well.
>
> I just found the article interesting because it seems like I regularly
> run into people that tell me that encryption on computers is pointless
> because the government can crack anything out there in short order.
>
> I do believe the government does have the resources to break a lot of
> it. Somewhere they might actually have what it takes to crack was was
> talked about in the article. I think stuff has to be of a high enough
> priority for the government expend the required resources.
>
> I don't believe there is any lock out there that is 100% secure. Whether
> it is on a computer, your front door, or securing your snowmachine.
>
> What we can do is make it secure enough the the effort expended to get
> the prize is more costly than what the prize is worth.
>
> I don't believe I have, or likely ever will have, anything the FBI will
> spend a year of resources to breach.
>
> On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 04:32 +0800, Bruce Hill wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 02:34:59PM -0800, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>>> "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.
>>>
>>> Jim G
>>
>> All my marbles are on LUKS:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
>>
>> Bruce
>
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Here's Jim trying to protect us from the cyber bad-guys:

http://www.veryfunnycats.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/funny_cat_pictures_pc_3.jpg

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Christopher Howard
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