[Cryptography] Fork of TrueCrypt

[Dave Horsfall]

On Fri, 30 May 2014, dj at deadhat.com wrote:

> This is the right place to discuss the deeper crypto aspects.

Indeed; there is another list, but not nearly as good as this one is.

> People might be interested in the Honey Encryption paper presented at
> EuroCrypt earlier this month. It claims to provide a way of encrypting the
> password such that a brute force attack will hit many plausible but wrong
> plaintexts before succeeding.

I believe that Bruce Schneier mentioned this in one of his latest books;
if you haven't at least read Applied Cryptography then do so.

For example, "Attack at dawn" could also decrypt into "Let's do lunch";
useful if someone is holding a pistol at your head.  Also useful as a
duress signal.

With proper crypto, nothing is revealed :-)

Apologies to Moderator for channeling Douglas Adams...

-- Dave, with about six books on crypto