Reply to post: Re: Lateral thinking

Here are the God-mode holes that gave TrueCrypt audit the slip

Mike 125

Re: Lateral thinking

>>spooks would prefer a less obvious yet incredibly simple approach of pick-pocketing the key while their targets are focused on improving the lock.

Yes. One thing that makes me wary of VeraCrypt is (from their site):

"TrueCrypt uses PBKDF2-RIPEMD160 with 1000 iterations whereas in VeraCrypt we use 327661."

That does not fill me with the confidence of knowing that VeraCrypt is even vaguely aware of

>>less obvious yet incredibly simple approach(es).

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