Re: [lopsa-tech] Bitlocker vs Truecrypt

2013-06-29 Thread David Lang
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: A password key derivation process is absolutely necessary whenever you have stored key encrypted by a password. The user types in a password, and the key derivation process applies salting and stretching via some hash algorithm (In this c

Re: [lopsa-tech] Bitlocker vs Truecrypt

2013-06-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > On Behalf Of William J. Robbins > > This ignores the option of using a keyfile instead of a password. Further, > Truecrypt does not use a password key derivation process - it uses a random > number generator process (the