[wellylug] USB stick protection

[Cliff Pratt]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 15:40, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I strongly advocate the later, because I have heard unsettling rumors
>>> that TrueCrypt has either weak cryptographic or implementation related
>>> issue that make it difficult for it to deliver real security, but I am
>>> yet to find any actual proof of this.
>> "strongly", "rumors", no "proof" ??
>> Do you have any hard information on this please?
> 
> No, which is why I carefully explained both that I had no hard
> information, and that I stated this because I wanted to make sure that
> I was up-front about my views on the product.
> 
> I presume that was unclear, so if you could explain where you
> misunderstood my statements in light of that confirmation I would
> appreciate it.
> 
Mm, it was easy enough to find this :

http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryptoloop.php

Though I'm not sure that TrueCrypt == truecrypt and whether the flaws 
are to be found in later versions of truecrypt > 4.1.

Cheers,

Cliff