On Oct 31, 2003, at 6:03 PM, David Kwinter wrote:
Dear revolutionaries,
http://www.securstar.com/ makes a really mean 1344-bit "military strength" encryption program. It's PC only - and I can well enough imagine how slow it runs in Virtual PC.. Does anyone know of a cross platform 1344-bit or similar program?
Thanks for any pointers,
Upgrade to Mac OS 10.3 and you get encrypted filesystem options built into the OS.
<http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/filevault/>
re: securstar Don't let the "bits" of a product convince you of it's strength. There is a company selling a "million-bit" crypto software and Bruce Schneier ripped them apart in his Crypto-Gram newsletter. See The Doghouse: Meganet <http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0302.html#4>.
Schneier, a top crypto expert, is renowned for advocating common sense, practicality, and human factors in security and risk management, instead of the "magic fairy dust" approach that some software companies would like to sell you.
I've never used Securstar myself. But some googling around reveals no negative reviews, and there is a previous open source project, Scramdisk, the authors of which parted ways and some went on to develop securstar/drivecrypt. See <http://samsimpson.com/cryptography/scramdisk/> for arguments pro and con about the move from free/open-source product to fully commercial/closed product. Securstar is probably a fine product, technically.
Thanks for posting this David- I remembered I want to order Schneier latest book _Beyond Fear_.
Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | <http://mindlube.com>
what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machines that are disposable -Ani DiFranco
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