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TrueCrypt's Deniable File System

2008-07-18 06:56:02 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...TrueCrypt version 5.1a. Basically, modern operating systems leak information like mad, making deniability a very difficult requirement to satisfy. ABSTRACT: We examine the security requirements for creating a Deniable File System (DFS), and the efficacy with which the TrueCrypt disk-encryption software meets those requirements. We find that...
 
Tags: truecrypt, deniable file system, file system, truecrypt version, system, truecrypt dfs, deniable, truecrypt disk-encryption software, systems
 
 
 
 
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Encrypting The Windows System Partition With Truecrypt 5.0

2008-02-11 01:00:00 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Truecrypt 5.0 Truecrypt 5.0 adds many new features, most importantly Windows system partition encryption. To put it in slightly inaccurate layman's terms, this means encrypting your entire C: drive. Even if you already write your sensitive data to an encrypted space, files are sometimes squirreled away in unencrypted temp space or in the page...
 
Tags: windows system partition, system partition, windows, truecrypt, temp space, space, sensitive data, page file, layman
 
 
 
 
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Updated video on "Encrypting The Windows System Partition With Truecrypt 5.0"

2008-02-20 01:25:52 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Truecrypt 5.0 " video. I used Photorec to do some file carving to see how secure Truecrypt's Windows system partition encryption was. Photorec was only able to recover two files, one ASP/TXT file and one PCX, but on closer examination both were false positives. They just contained seemingly random data, which Photorec mistook as real file...
 
Tags: truecrypt, file, windows system partition, real file headers, photorec, photorec mistook, secure truecrypt, data, seemingly random data
 
 
 
 
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Updated video on "Encrypting The Windows System Partition With Truecrypt 5.0"

2008-02-20 01:25:52 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...Truecrypt 5.0 " video. I used Photorec to do some file carving to see how secure Truecrypt's Windows system partition encryption was. Photorec was only able to recover two files, one ASP/TXT file and one PCX, but on closer examination both were false positives. They just contained seemingly random data, which Photorec mistook as real file...
 
Tags: truecrypt, file, windows system partition, real file headers, photorec, photorec mistook, secure truecrypt, data, seemingly random data
 
 
 
 
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New TrueCrypt

2008-02-06 16:43:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
There's a new version of TrueCrypt out - one of my favorite encryption programs for keeping computer data safe. New features in the 5.0 release include: a Mac version (finally), the ability to encrypt an entire Windows hard drive, and a graphical interface for the Linux version. If you're a TrueCrypt user, time to upgrade. If you're not, you...
 
Tags: truecrypt, version, linux version, truecrypt user, computer data safe, mac version, favorite encryption programs, graphical interface, release include
 
 
 
 
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TrueCrypt 5.0 Released!!!

2008-02-07 00:00:06 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
TrueCrypt 5.0, The Free Open-Source Disk Encryption Software now has a Mac OS X Version
 
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TrueCrypt 5.0

2008-03-04 06:35:21 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
There's a new version of TrueCrypt, the free open-source disk encryption software
 
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A Free Mobile Data Encryption Solution

2008-04-20 07:20:40 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...TrueCrypt. An open-source product, TrueCrypt provides both hard disk and mobile storage device encryption functionality. In this post, I include a brief overview of TrueCrypt and my conclusions about it's fit as an enterprise mobile data protection tool. See my paper, 'Evaluation of TrueCrypt as a Mobile Data Encryption Solution', for a more...
 
Tags: solution, truecrypt, sensitive mobile data, inexpensive tools, basic security, open-source product, common challenge, hard disk, include
 
 
 
 
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Iowa DNR loses personal information on 7,000

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2007-12-19 14:22:00 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...TrueCrypt , BeCrypt Connect Protect , GFI EndPointSecurity and Pointsec to name just a few According to a May, 2007 Information Week article , "Thumb Drives Replace Malware As Top Security Concern Why is the DNR policy "not as specific Past Breaches Unknown
 
Tags: iowa dnr, iowa, iowa dnr decides, iowa dnr lost, iowa department, dnr, computer flash drive, drive, information
 
 
 
 
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Personal Privacy Programs

2008-01-07 20:30:45 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
Hi all. I've decided it's time to start focusing on software that helps users maintain their privacy. I've already done videos on DBAN , Eraser , CCleaner , TrueCRYPT and Tor . I hope to have one on PGP/GPG/FireGPG up soon. What other must have privacy software do you recommend I cover? Let me know via my contact page , to which I've recently...
 
Tags: privacy, privacy software, software, helps users maintain, openpgp key, contact page, pgpgpgfiregpg, time, recommend