TrueCrypt 5.1
Posted by micele - 11/03/08 at 11:03:15 am
.. is out now! Just 27 days after the 5.0a Release.
Thank god, they brought back the command line interface for Linux and Mac OS X. With the 5.0 release the GUI (so far only known by Windows user) was established on all platforms. This was quite a good improvement but in return the removed the possibility to create and manage volumes on the command line…
It seems they realized this mistake and fixed it 
In addition TrueCrypt now supports hibernation on Windows platforms with encrypted system partitions and the bootloader is now compressed so that it takes only 27 KB. This is an advantage especially for systems where the BIOS needs a lot of memory.
For the hole list of improvements and bug-fixes view the changelog.
FireGPG: web-based email en-, decrypting & signing
Posted by micele - 06/02/08 at 04:02:43 pmI often run into the problem of receiving encrypted mails but not be able to read it because I only have webmail access at this moment. Installing PGP plugins for webmailer like SquirrelMail always looked like a bad idea to me. Especially SquirrelMail hasn’t been the most secure peace of software out there and a place surrounded by all this php-web-foobar security leaks isn’t the best place for a private key. However there is another possibility of *crypting, signing and verifiying emails using webmail interfaces.
The FireFox extension FireGPG is a simple way to do all this pretty things. FireGPG just extends the FireFox context menu so that you can easily mark text inside textboxes and de- or encrypt it by mouseclick. Unfortunately GnuPG has to be installed.
It’s still a beta release but I suggest it’s stable enough to give it a try in secure enviroments. So get it!
Furthermore maybe this is a good choice for the Mac OS X 10.5 user. Somewhere I read that GPGMail doesn’t work with the toothless Leopard so far?!
Dec 9, 2007 - GPGMail & 10.5 (Leopard)
GPGMail doesn’t work yet on 10.5, and can’t work as-is. I’m currently working on the port, and published a beta version.
- micele
TrueCrypt for Mac OS X
Posted by micele - 29/01/08 at 01:01:15 amYeah - this is the first post about OS X. And I really didn’t know, that I would be supposed to write it *hint@nils*
So far the volume encryption software formerly known as TrueCrypt was only available for Linux and Windows. Now it becomes available for OS X as well.
I really appreciate having this nice piece of software implemented on the Mac OS as well. But let the authors tell on their own:
Ok guys, you accused us of cheating, scamming, phishing, terrorism and even stolen candies but at the end of it we’re OUT with the First OpenSource Platform for Volume Encryption on MacOs X (aka ‘Look, mom! Truecrypt on my Macbook!’).
Having the opportunity to not trust FileVault has never been so sweet…
It’s still an alpha release and maybe it’s not a good idea to already use it for productive operation. But hey - once there is a alpha release usually a beta release follows. And so on…
Even if this is supposed to be an alpha (may we say pre-beta?), considering the several hundreds of downloads and the complete lack of problem reporting please consider this to be a safe enough to use it, as long as you keep regular backups (but you ALWAYS do it, don’t you?).
So mac folks: get it, try it, report and help improving the interoperability of TrueCrypt volumes all over the world
For the conclusion I hand over again to the OSXCrypt guys:
Happy
PornSecrets again, now with even more confidence!
via aptgetupdate.de
- micele
Proof of Concept
Posted by micele - 28/01/08 at 07:01:05 pmIt’s gonna be neeerdy right here 
If you don’t get the joke, this is not your blog…
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