I'm less worried about truecrypt NSA reading my alternatives drive than I bitcoin some thief truecrypt steals my laptop. Only requests for donations to large, recognized charities are allowed, and only if there is good reason to believe that the person bitcoin bitcoins on behalf of the charity is trustworthy. Join them; it only takes a minute: For security purposes, you should stay away from ALL closed source solutions. Samuel Attah is a crypto-enthusiast, freelance writer, and full time crypto wallet who loves to writes about Bitcoin and Blockchain technology in Nigeria and Africa in general. Wallet worst case option, alternatives shouldn't even be an option, is Windows. Apparently that's no bueno with them
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As such, it is more resistant to wild inflation and corrupt banks. Submit link NOT about price. This is as close to risk free as you will get in any investment as long as your not the type to count chicks before they are hatched. I haven't tried it and it isn't under active development anymore; however, with the TrueCrypt news, I'm guessing that code will get forked and updated if it hasn't already. For security purposes, you should stay away from ALL closed source solutions. Dabs Staff Legendary Offline Activity: Yes, the key is associated with your windows account itself, not just the password.
Truecrypt sure other distros support this from the installer too. As of now, There are chances, that the satellite code around the algorithm wasn't used correctly, or that there is a back door. If you have a fairly powerful computer that is almost always online, alternatives can help the network by running Bitcoin Core. That would not be a reliable way to erase data on flash memory. Use of this site bitcoin acceptance of our Wallet Agreement and Privacy Alternatives. Using Armory, I can't sign the transaction because I bitcoin write the truecrypt anywhere except the outer partition, log into wallet decoy OS, get the signed file leaving a whole mess of information in the file system that the file existed.
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Dabs, I'm not sure what you are suggesting. Do you have a recommendation for tools to use? This is my major problem because I want a hidden OS so if someone is holding a gun to my head and wants to take my Bitcoins, I can take them to a place where I have a wallet with a small amount as a decoy. Using Armory, I can't sign the transaction because I can't write the file anywhere except the outer partition, log into the decoy OS, get the signed file leaving a whole mess of information in the file system that the file existed.
I haven't tried the Hidden OS in a while, but I think the documentation mentions that it will not allow writes to local file systems. Meaning, external drives should be writable even when using the hidden OS. Someone has to try it though. I don't have the space to do it on my computer right now. As for someone holding you up, you're screwed basically. If they know enough about encryption, they will beat you up until you give up the password to the hidden OS which you didn't make, or until they're satisfied that it really doesn't exist.
They will not believe you have 10 bitcoins and only 10 bitcoins in your decoy OS. They will keep you in jail for a few months until you tell them about your paper wallet, or give them the key to your safe deposit box in the bank, or Also, if they're smart, they will be studying you, without you knowing it, and they will realize that you might possibly have a hidden OS.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue. Full Member Offline Activity: Hmm so how do we remedy this problem then? What if we already have some ltc in the account but have some keys generated before the encryption. How would I secure my wallet in this case? Win btc just for 5 mins! Powered by SMF 1. February 04, , Links up with your cloud storage also. Rohos Mini drive - free encryption tool, reduced version of Rohos Disk application.
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BitLocker is pretty much guaranteed to have a backdoor. Everyone in the security field suspects it with a very high degree of certainty, considering Snowden's revelations. That's exactly why TrueCrypt team recommended switching to it, it's a huge red flag, something bad happened to the team, and they can't openly say what. You don't need to be a genius to figure out what that is. I'm all about skepticism, but this is just hyperbole.
The implications of a backdoor in BitLocker across ALL releases would have major implications to Microsoft both financially and legally. MSFT gets a copy of your private key. Which might as well be the NSA. Which sorta makes you wonder why encrypt it in the first place? I agree with this. Using Windows and bitcoins is no different from using fiat currencies and a bank account, you are not in control of your money.
Plus, I think it would be ignorant to assuming that no Microsoft ex employee becomes every become hackers. I'm less worried about the NSA reading my hard drive than I am some thief who steals my laptop. This isn't meant to be an endorsement of NSA policies, but I can't imagine anything in my life is drawing their scrutiny. The problem with BitLocker is that it's closed source. So if it had back doors coded into it, no one would know.
This, of-course assumes that back doors exist in Microsoft's stuff which no one knows. And that's IS the main issue, BitLocker is closed source, so no one can know for sure, if it has back doors or not How about using dm-crypt as it's FSF compliant? So, do you compile your open-source system yourself from scratch? If not, how are you certain that the compiled binary you downloaded from somewhere is in fact the same as the source that you reviewed? You did review the source yourself, right?
Oh, and where did you get your compiler binary that you used to build it all? Are you sure it's not tainted? Don't get me wrong, I love open source and use quite a bit of it myself , but the assertion that "Oh, this is open source, it must automatically be secure" is just plain wrong. Security comes from being aware of your system and what's it's doing, not from using only bits with the right shape license sticker on them.
More accurate advice would be "For security purposes, you should carefully examine every component you use in the system, hardware and software, to a degree appropriate to your application". That said, I would still trust pre-news so, 7. The fact that it's open source means that hundreds or thousands of people can check and do check the software.
Such checks are not possible with closed sourced software at all. So if someone does try to add back doors to open source software, it won't take long before it's discovered and removed or re-branched. Again, this is not possible with closed source software. Failing that, your second best open is to rely on the thousands of open source developers to do the checking. The worst case option, which shouldn't even be an option, is Windows.
That's what happens with open source, when an issue is discovered, it's fixed, you can't even begin to imagine the number of exploits which must exist in closed source software The difference is, closed source software can have intentional exploits and no one can check.
Just because something is open source doesn't mean it's automatically more secure or less secure than closed source software. Considering Windows XP has been out for 13 years, and IE6 roughtly the same time, with it's recent bug find. My point wasn't that closed source is perfect it clearly isn't but more that blind faith in FOSS being secure just by virtue of it being FOSS is just wrong. Fair enough, blind faith in open source is not good.
But in my books it's at least twice as trust worthy when compared to ALL closed source solutions. Open source has 1 issue as far as I am concerned, that it can have unintentional bugs. Closed source has 2 issues, it can have intentional and unintentional bugs, and no one can ever check. Problem is by default it uses your windows account as the password, so when people lose their windows account, they get locked out.
Yes, the key is associated with your windows account itself, not just the password. If you lose your window account somehow, then it's impossible to decrypt your content anymore.
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