full-disclosure - Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

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Message-ID: <4B6072EC.1080502@csuohio.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:07:56 -0500
From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@...ohio.edu>
To: Bipin Gautam <bipin.gautam@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Disk wiping -- An alternate approach?

> download truecrypt and add a "custom cascade of ciphers" to your
> truecrypt source code... so that your truecrypt hidden volume will be
> very hard to bruteforced with off the self tools (which is what most
>   

No "off-the-shelf" tool exists for cracking any of the existing ciphers
used in TrueCrypt beyond those that speed up a brute-force attack (like
the Tableau TACC1441), but those tools just speed up the password->key
generation process .. they aren't even attempting a true "keyspace" attack.

Cheers,

Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University

PS: as for "custom ciphers", I hear 2 rounds of ROT13 is pretty good, 4
is even better, and with 6 rounds, it's practically invincible.

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