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(@matthewvelie)
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I've heard a lot about the Truecrypt open source encryption program lately on the internet, but after a lot of google searching it appears that no one has figured any way to get data out of anything that was encrypted besides doing a brute force. Has anyone ever had experience with a case where someone had used truecrypt on a drive or on certain files?

 
Posted : 08/01/2006 10:45 am
JonN
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We've had a couple of jobs recently invoving Truecrypt, and other encrypting tools.

The bottom line seems to be that without the password, you're not going to get anything.

The next line up is that even if you have the password, you can't be sure you're getting the right thing, as Truecrypt has the facility to give an encrypted volume two passwords. Both will open up what appears to be the full volume, and give all the details you want to see about space used/free, so you can effectively put perfectly innocent stuff in one volume, all your stuff you want to hide in another, and when someone tries to rubber hose you to get your password, you tell them the one for the innocent stuff. Clever, eh?

Brute force is going to be the only chance of getting in, and then that depends on how big your 'cluster' of cracking computers is and how much time you have to wait, all the time hoping that your suspect just used a simple password in the first place.

Hope this helps

Jon

 
Posted : 08/01/2006 5:48 pm
(@matthewvelie)
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Thanks, from what I've read on their website as much seemed to be the case.

 
Posted : 08/01/2006 9:53 pm
(@securit)
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Off the cuff without trawlng through the documentation does anyone who uses this software know if it actually shows anyone who is examining it whether there is two volumes, one hidden and one normally secured?

Would an examination of the data even show that two existed if the normal volume password was used to gain access?

 
Posted : 10/01/2006 5:51 am
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