is truecrypt dead?

Lance Cottrell loki at obscura.com
Fri May 30 06:44:32 PDT 2014


On May 30, 2014, at 4:56 AM, dan at geer.org wrote:

> 
> | 
> | Could this non-notice be a Lavabit/Silent Circle type announcement/warning?
> | 
> 
> We need, somehow, a safe word for such projects.  Presumably one
> that is triggered by a failed keep-alive.  This has been discussed
> before variously, but it may be an idea whose time has come.  Design
> will require choices between false alarms and silent failure.
> 
> --dan
> 

A deadman switch for NSL alerts would make for an interesting case. Would a judge rule that you had “spoken” about the NSL by failing to send the keep-alive messages, thus compelling you to continuously speak the lie that you have not received one?

--
Lance Cottrell
loki at obscura.com



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