full-disclosure - Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 15:26:24 -0600
From: James Lay <jlay@...ve-tothe-box.net>
To: <fulldisclosure@...lists.org>
Subject: Re: [FD] Full disk encryption for OS X alternative to TrueCrypt

On 2014-05-29 15:18, CIURANA EUGENE (pr3d4t0r - Full Disclosure) wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I'm a happy long-time user of TrueCrypt, and was as
> dismayed as anyone else to see the news. I'm considering starting a 
> full
> disk image encryption alternative to TrueCrypt that will target OS X
> (maybe others too, but right now OS X is my priority).
>
> Asking here for
> interest in such an endeavor. My system still uses TrueCrypt 7.1a and 
> I
> managed to rescue the binaries, but I suspect they may break Real 
> Soon
> Now and, with nobody to maintain the code... well, OS X needs an
> alternative. And no, Apple's partition encryption isn't an option 
> since
> it's suspect of having back doors.
>
> My intention is to release the code
> under an open source license (GPLv2 or Apache). Please let me know 
> your
> thoughts. Working now on understanding how Fuse might play in this
> setup, or whether to write a low-level driver altogether and mount it
> via the kernel w/o Fuse.
>
> Cheers!
>
> pr3d

Maybe the built-in FileVault in 10.9.

James

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