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Hi,<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rjohnston@denverinternet.com">rjohnston@denverinternet.com</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On May 12, 2010 at 10:39 PM Jim Ockers <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net"><ockers@ockers.net></a> quoth :
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
Jed S. Baer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">This came up in discussion after the meeting last night.
Seems pretty spiffy. Certain meta-data is not encrypted, but contents
are. For low-level paranoia, or just data security without any black
helicopter overtones, it's a good solution. IANBS, so can't testify to
whether the implementation has any cryptographic flaws.
jed
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<pre wrap="">Unfortunately I wasn't there for your discussion (but I would have liked
to be), so I don't know if TrueCrypt was discussed as a means of
encrypting data on hard drives. I don't know what "black helicopter"
overtones are but there are lots of nosy people out there.
I have been using TrueCrypt as a matter of course for some time now, for
any data that is probably not any business of people who might feel the
need to snoop through computer systems that I use or travel with.
TrueCrypt is very easy to use, and the plausible deniability feature is
interesting too. :) It seems to be fairly well designed and implemented
and works on Linux Windows and other platforms I think.
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yeah,
like jed said - it was after-meeting,
but truecrypt did come up, because it is free - but we discussed that it isn't
open.
so the discussion went in the direction of what is available that is open source
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I think TrueCrypt is open source. From their web site
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2">http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2</a> (copied & pasted text):<br>
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"TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source Disk Encryption Software<br>
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Source Code<br>
The complete source code (in C, C++ and assembly) of the latest stable
version of TrueCrypt."<br>
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Then there is a Windows (.zip) or MacOSX/Linux (.tar.gz) and a Download
button.<br>
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Now mind you there is a license of some sort that you have to agree to,
and I didn't read it just now, so that might make it not "open." I
don't know if it really is truly"Free" software in the GNU sense, but
anyway it might be worth a look since you can get the source.<br>
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Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>)
Contact info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html">http://www.ockers.ca/pason.html</a>
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