[liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-05-29 Thread Security First
Hi everyone, While the jury is still out on how this TrueCrypt issue plays out. With TC such a big part of the furniture in LibTech community practises, lessons, manuals, advice, etc., the question I'm sure a lot of us are thinking is: What are the best alternatives to TrueCrypt for the people

Re: [liberationtech] Not an Emergency: Has TrueCrypt.org been Hijacked?

2014-05-29 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 07:42:02PM -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: My suspicion is that either they were hacked (and had their key stolen), or that they were ordered to shutdown and recommend Microsoft's (presumably backdoored) BitLocker as a replacement. BitLocker's enterprise documentation

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-05-29 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 09:10:08AM +0100, Security First wrote: While the jury is still out on how this TrueCrypt issue plays out. Hmmm.. What are the best alternatives to TrueCrypt for the people we work with and train? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-05-29 Thread Tom O
Truecrypt has not properly been audited. The only audit to date is what has been organised by Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University. I believe there is still more to go on this, but in light of recent events, one wonders of this is worth it. On Thursday, May 29, 2014, carlo von lynX

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-05-29 Thread carlo von lynX
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:51:21PM +1000, Tom O wrote: Truecrypt has not properly been audited. The only audit to date is what has been organised by Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University. I believe there is still more to go on this, but in light of recent events, one wonders of this

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-05-29 Thread Tom O
No I mean TrueCrypt Site is is truecryptauditedyet.com Heartbleed was a vuln found by researchers at Google (Heel Mehta), not the result of an audit. I assure you that there are significant software projects that go through intense auditing. Nothing is secure, but there are some things less

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-05-29 Thread Tom O
Sorry the link should be www.istruecryptauditedyet.com On 29 May 2014 22:37, carlo von lynX l...@time.to.get.psyced.org wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:51:21PM +1000, Tom O wrote: Truecrypt has not properly been audited. The only audit to date is what has been organised by Matthew Green

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-05-29 Thread taxakis
For those with imminent interest: http://rpmfusion.org/Package/realcrypt cheers /t -Original Message- From: liberationtech [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of carlo von lynX Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 2:37 PM To: liberationtech

[liberationtech] Thomas Piketty, Karl Marx and the Internet

2014-05-29 Thread Christian Fuchs
Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Thomas Piketty’s Book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, Karl Marx and the Political Economy of the Internet. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism Critique 12 (1): 413-430. http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/575 Abstract Thomas Piketty’s book

[liberationtech] Would you like to help improve our beginner's guide to email encryption?

2014-05-29 Thread Zak Rogoff
Hello everyone, On Thursday, June 5th, the FSF is planning to release a getting-started guide to GnuPG with Enigmail in Thunderbird-like email clients. We're looking for new and experienced GnuPG users to test out the guide and give us feedback, in the hopes of making a guide like no other. If

[liberationtech] Here is a list of TrueCrypt compatible disk encryption tools

2014-05-29 Thread Nicholas Merrill
Here's a list of Truecrypt compatible file encryption software .. some compromises required, but maybe it will suffice for the time being http://www.hacker10.com/encryption-software-2/list-of-truecrypt-compatible-encryption-software/ -Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx