>> As a tool, it empowers more people to make their own cryptography decisions >> instead of having to rely on and trust proprietary solutions.
So what makes your program non-proprietary? Are you publishing the source? If not, why would someone trust your package? Having watched the demo, I don't see that Safe does anything that the native OS X encrypted disk image facility hasn't been doing for years… other than offering a friendlier interface for creating the image, which is a one-time thing. On Apr 17, 2014, at 8:56 PM, Rian Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi There! > > Wanted to announce the release of my native Windows/MacOSX port of EncFS. > It's called Safe, it's free and you can get it here: http://www.getsafe.org/ > > Safe forms an ecosystem with similar tools like TrueCrypt. It's not for > hardcore cryptographic applications, you can't choose specific ciphers and it > makes no effort to ensure plausible deniability. > > Safe's main goal is to make file system encryption easy to use and accessible > to more people. It's for every day encryption i.e. a simple way to ensure > reasonably private stuff is actually stored privately. Peace of mind if your > laptop or external hard gets stolen, or someone hacks into your backup > service. As a tool, it empowers more people to make their own cryptography > decisions instead of having to rely on and trust proprietary solutions. > > Safe isn't without limitations. Think of it like the physical safe you keep > in your home: burglars will have a hard time cracking it but given enough > resources it's not strictly impenetrable. If you need a steel alloy vault, > TrueCrypt might be closer to what you're looking for but it's not without its > own set of limitations as well. > > Personally I store all my tax, legal, and medical documents in Safe. That's > just me, Safe is GPL and comes with no warranty :) > > Rian Hunter > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
