Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

2014-05-30 Thread Mateusz Lenik
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 02:45:12PM -0700, CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r - Full Disclosure) wrote: > FileVault is suspect -- we have no > guarantee, one way or another, that Apple doesn't have some kind of back > door into it. > > That's why I believe we need an alternative for OS X > users who rely o

Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

2014-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:26 PM, James Lay wrote: > On 2014-05-29 15:18, CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r - Full Disclosure) wrote: >> >> Greetings. >> >> I'm a happy long-time user of TrueCrypt, and was as >> dismayed as anyone else to see the news. I'm considering starting a full >> disk image encryptio

Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

2014-05-29 Thread CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r - Full Disclosure)
On 2014-05-29 14:39, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > GPL can be a toxic license. Its great if you're OK with being > boxed-in, but its too encumbered to do anything outside of Stallman's > vision. Apache, Boost and {2|3}-clause BSD license will likely be more > useful for those who want to reuse code

Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

2014-05-29 Thread James Lay
On 2014-05-29 15:18, CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r - Full Disclosure) wrote: Greetings. I'm a happy long-time user of TrueCrypt, and was as dismayed as anyone else to see the news. I'm considering starting a full disk image encryption alternative to TrueCrypt that will target OS X (maybe others too

Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

2014-05-29 Thread CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r - Full Disclosure)
On 2014-05-29 14:46, Mike Cramer wrote: > You need to ask yourself a question: > > How well do you know coding and encryption handling to ensure that your > software doesn't have unintentional back doors and/or information > disclosure? This is a serious question because it requires serious a

Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

2014-05-29 Thread Mike Cramer
You need to ask yourself a question: How well do you know coding and encryption handling to ensure that your software doesn't have unintentional back doors and/or information disclosure? This is a serious question because it requires serious answers when you're dealing with cryptography. The weake

Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

2014-05-29 Thread CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r - Full Disclosure)
On 2014-05-29 14:23, Jeffrey Groby wrote: > Maybe I am confused here. I thought FileVault was the full disk encryption tool for OS X and TrueCrypt was the Windows solution. Are you writing an alternative to FileVault? > > I am sure I must have misunderstood something. TrueCrypt was availabl