Collaborate Disseminate
I know there are existing questions about how Truecrypt uses mouse input to increase entropy. My question is, how much of a difference does it make? I don’t know of any other encryption utilities that do this, so does this me… Continue reading How much more secure is encryption if the program requires random input from the user?
I’m planning to store my sensitive files to the cloud. I don’t trust the already-made end-to-end encrypted file storage.
I only trust TrueCrypt. Assuming that TrueCrypt itself is safe, would it be secure to use DropBox to syn… Continue reading Is it safe to have a TrueCrypt container file synced with DropBox?
I know that TrueCrypt was considered safer over VeraCrypt a few years ago. But does this situation remain the same? It was because TrueCrypt was audited and VeraCrypt was not and there was just more eyes watching TrueCrypt th… Continue reading Is TrueCrypt still safer than VeraCrypt?
Let’s say we have half of a TrueCrypt file container (e.g. download was interrupted). If we know the password, is it possible to open it and get half of the data? The original container has 10 files, so is it possible (in the… Continue reading Is it possible to decrypt half of a TrueCrypt file container if the other half of the data is missing?
Matthew D. Green, PhD, a well-known cryptographer and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, will carry out an audit of OpenVPN. Continue reading OpenVPN to Undergo Cryptographic Audit
An audit of open source file and disk encryption software VeraCrypt wrapped up and a number of critical vulnerabilities uncovered in the assessment were patched. Continue reading VeraCrypt Patches Critical Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Audit
Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered the StrongPity APT, a group that uses watering hole attacks to infect machines of users seeking encryption technologies such as WinRAR and TrueCrypt. Continue reading StrongPity APT Covets Secrets of Crypto Users
Four emails have vanished without trace. Is it magic? A bug? Or are nation-states at work? Continue reading VeraCrypt disk encryption team claims “emails intercepted”
Missing emails between the parties involved in an audit of VeraCrypt, which began today, are now being blamed on errors in mail.app and GPGMail. Continue reading VeraCrypt Audit Under Way; Email Mystery Cleared Up
After TrueCrypt mysteriously discontinued itself, VeraCrypt became the most popular open source disk encryption software used by activists, journalists, and privacy conscious people.
Due to the huge popularity of VeraCrypt, security researchers from t… Continue reading Someone is Spying on Researchers Behind VeraCrypt Security Audit