Tax returns enjoy a form of public access here - no need to spend time
and money about protecting that ;-)
Don't worry be happy Philippe, not in Lichtenstein
Le 27 juin 14 à 21:07, Chuck Norcutt a écrit :
Thanks much for that. There's a lot of stuff in there but what I
chose to focus on is the commentary at Gibson Research <https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
> I've known, bought from and followed Steve Gibson for about 30
years and trust his knowledge and judgement.
The bottom line is that TrueCrypt (far from being ugly) is actually
a beautifully written application. You can find the source,
excecutables and documentation on GRC's page above. Version 7.1a
(the last complete version) has been running unchanged since Feb
2012. There's no reason why we shouldn't trust it... well, as long
as you're not paranoid over the possibility of NSA backdoors. If
the NSA wants my social security number they have far easier ways to
get it than decrypting one of my old tax returns. :-)
I've downloaded it and will try it out. Thanks, I feel like I'm
back on track.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/27/2014 1:23 PM, Michael R. Collins wrote:
No advice, but... to read some of the background behind the TrueCrypt
decison, you might go through some of the recent articles found by:
<http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=truecrypt>
Michael
On 14-06-27 11:30 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
Thanks. Those sound like some pretty nasty "features" for a
technology
that has been around since probably before Vista. Anyhow, I don't
want full disk encryption (especially of the boot drive) for exactly
the type of problems that you've mentioned. TrueCrypt and FreeOTFE
are able to create a virtual disk which is simply an ordinary file
on
the OS. I had assumed that BitLocker could do that as well but
apparently not. It's limited to real hardware but can do removable
drives. That would probably be sufficient but not my preference.
So
I'll stay away from BitLocker due to price and function if nothing
else. I was also sad to note that Symantec PGP doesn't work well
either.
Anyone else?
Chuck Norcutt
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