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

The complete silence part is just a myth. Just no hip-hop. ;-)

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 05:16 +0000, Christopher Howard wrote:
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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:
>
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> Christopher Howard
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