public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Michael Hampicke <mh@hadt.biz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:53:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <538C3B9F.10808@hadt.biz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538C344E.6050809@gmail.com>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1111 bytes --]

Am 02.06.2014 10:22, schrieb Dale:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl:
>>> Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when
>>> playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all
>>> time favorite apps, is no more.
>>>
>>> Some links of interest:
>>>
>>> https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/truecrypt_wtf.html
>>>
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812133
>>>
>>> http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/505372-truecrypt-is-dead?page=1
>>>
>>>
>> well, if true: good riddance. But I suspect some hacker-y or power
>> struggle.
>>
>>
> 
> I'm considering encrypting my home partition one of these days.  Given
> the things that have come out in recent months, back doors and such,
> what is a good program/software/tool to use that is well . . . secure? 
> Is there such a thing now?
> 

Depends on your needs, for encrypting complete devices/partitions try
the kernels dm-crypt/luks module. If you just want to encrypt a
directory try encfs, and for file encryption there's openssl and gpg


[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 490 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-02  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-01 12:31 [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet? Tanstaafl
2014-06-01 17:45 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02  8:22   ` Dale
2014-06-02  8:53     ` Michael Hampicke [this message]
2014-06-02  9:20       ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02 10:24         ` Michael Hampicke
2014-06-02 11:34         ` Mark David Dumlao
2014-06-02 12:27           ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02  9:24     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02  9:34       ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02  9:48         ` Dale
2014-06-02 10:06           ` Alan McKinnon
2014-06-02 10:27             ` Dale
2014-06-02 10:56               ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02 11:04                 ` Dale
2014-06-02 11:10                   ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-02 11:33                     ` Dale
2014-06-02 13:23                     ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 11:28                 ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-02 12:06                   ` Dale
2014-06-02 12:28                     ` Michael Hampicke
2014-06-02 12:30                     ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 13:27                     ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-02 13:40                   ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 12:23                     ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 12:36                       ` godzil
2014-06-02 12:58                         ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 13:29                           ` godzil
2014-06-02 14:52                       ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 13:23                         ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 15:29                           ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-03 18:53                             ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-03 21:05                               ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-03 19:53                                 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-03 21:27                                   ` Matti Nykyri
2014-06-02 18:14                         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02 17:14                   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02 19:26                     ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 13:22                 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-06-02 16:54                 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-02 10:43             ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-02 10:54             ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-04 19:59               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-06-04 23:24                 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-05 16:52                   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-06-05 16:57                     ` Rich Freeman
2014-06-02 10:22   ` Tanstaafl
2014-06-02 10:57     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2014-06-03  7:17 ` Marc Stürmer
2014-06-03 10:00   ` Tanstaafl
2014-06-03 12:02     ` Mick
2014-06-03 19:59     ` Marc Stürmer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=538C3B9F.10808@hadt.biz \
    --to=mh@hadt.biz \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox