In Truecrypt We Trust

**Renk** · 29.06.10, 01:08

The FBI failed to break the encryption code of hard drives seized by federal police at the apartment of banker Daniel Dantas, in Rio de Janeiro, during Operation Satyagraha. The operation began in July 2008. According to a report published on Friday (25) by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, after a year of unsuccessful attempts, the U.S. federal police returned the equipment to Brazil in April.

According to the report, the fed only requested help from USA in early 2009, after experts from the National Institute of Criminology (INC) failed to decode the passwords on the hard drives. The government has no legal instrument to compel the manufacturer of the American encryption system or Dantas to give the access codes.

G1 - Not even FBI was able to decrypt files of Daniel Dantas - notícias em English

**MrCheat** · 29.06.10, 16:07

Yeah its true that the FBI cannot decrypt hard passworded files/hard drives, however the NSA can but it usually never goes that far since it is expensive. However, if you were a person with high interest, they would send your file to the NSA and have it decrypted.
Thanks for the info.

**hontoCorti** · 29.06.10, 16:08

What helps, is never get a person of interest:)

**tokiodrift1** · 29.06.10, 19:15

Originally Posted by MrCheat

...however the NSA can but it usually never goes that far since it is expensive....

What are they(nsa) doing with the hdd?
I thought there is no way to decrypt such systems (at least within few years).

**SBfreak** · 29.06.10, 20:15

I thought there is no way to decrypt such systems (at least within few years).

Ha you never know what kind of technology is hidden from us.

**anon** · 29.06.10, 20:15

Originally Posted by tokiodrift1

I thought there is no way to decrypt such systems (at least within few years).

Nothing's flawless.

**tokiodrift1** · 29.06.10, 20:21

I've heard that somewhere...

btw, anon, its futbol-time.

**saebrtooth** · 30.06.10, 05:34

Even if some org didnt have super computers even with secret malware they could steal CPU and bandwidth to do their dirty stuff

**slikrapid** · 30.06.10, 17:41

Originally Posted by MrCheat

Yeah its true that the FBI cannot decrypt hard passworded files/hard drives, however the NSA can

translated, that means the fbi can do it too since they cooperate when necessary or they can simply install another system for this purpose within the fbi

but it usually never goes that far since it is expensive.

which is what they want people to believe, whereas the federal bank prints money as they please and the federal bureau gets it when needed, and the public gets served with a watered down (harmonized, non transparent) version of the truth

what info does one have about truecrypt, their authors, their financial records, donations, connections to the government and so on - one can be pretty sure the government (via intelligence agencies) is very interested to be ahead (or infiltrated/prepared/informed/in control) of anything potentially dangerous (which includes unknown/new technology) to the system

**Gapo** · 05.11.10, 10:55

TrueCrypt isn't something I'd trust. Why you ask? Read this Bootkit bypasses hard disk encryption - The H Security: News and Features

**shoulder** · 05.11.10, 12:24

And you think this is a problem by TrueCrypt?

**Gapo** · 05.11.10, 12:29

Err, yes? Even if the BIOS is weak to this attack, TrueCrypt should be able to protect it somehow.

This quotation is interesting;

For instance, using Windows' own BitLocker encryption mechanism is said to be a reliable antidote, because an infected MBR's hash value no longer corresponds to the hash value stored in the TPM, prompting the TPM to abort the boot process.

Source - http://www.h-online.com/security/new...on-742721.html