is truecrypt dead?

Juan juan.g71 at gmail.com
Fri May 30 12:35:49 PDT 2014


On Fri, 30 May 2014 06:44:32 -0700
Lance Cottrell <loki at obscura.com> wrote:

> 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 


	Why not?  Compulsion is their business model.


> to continuously
> speak the lie that you have not received one?






> 
> --
> Lance Cottrell
> loki at obscura.com
> 
> 
> 




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