Re: TrueCrypt 4.0 Out
From: Sebastian Gottschalk (seppi_at_seppig.de)
Date: 11/03/05
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Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:53:28 +0100
tomstdenis@gmail.com wrote:
> clark wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:38:23 -0800, traveler <noreply@nym.alias.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:05:47 -0500, Ari Silversteinn
>>><arisilverstein@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.truecrypt.org/
>>>
>>>As someone who knows very little about disk encryption, I'm
>>>just wondering how good can a program like this can be? The last
>>>release was just over half a meg in size, can they build a truly
>>>dependable and secure program at that size?
>>
>> Yes they can.
>>
>> They just have a different paradigm for writing software than most of
>> the bloatware you are used to seeing.
>
> Which is odd because portable crypto libraries exist. There is no
> reason why they couldn't just link against them instead of munging
> crypto routines from a dozen authors.
It's their policy: Only accept code we have written ourselves.
> If they were serious about security they would worry less about the
> number of passes with different ciphers they utilize and more about the
> quality of the code that implements their system.
So far, TwoFish is broken. If being used in a cascade, it's still secure.
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