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The TrueCrypt website has been changed it now has a big red warning stating "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues". They recommend using BitLocker for Windows 7/8, FileVault for OS X, or (whatever) for Linux. So, what happened? The TrueCrypt site says:
This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt. The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.
Did the TrueCrypt devs (or SourceForge?) get a NSL? They are offering a "new" version (7.2), but apparently the signing key has changed and a source code diff seems to indicate a lot of the functionality has been stripped out. What's up?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday May 29 2014, @09:27AM
That's just it though. You're missing the bigger point. Nobody is even trying to brute force anything .
At least not anymore. Once the permutations so strongly exceeded total processing power, attackers simply had no choice but to stop. They didn't even brute force Enigma the way you allude to. Take a deeper look at how Enigma was attacked. They had enough processing power during WWII to brute force Enigma *AFTER* they first reduced the keyspace with nifty mathematical analysis.
The real game, and real attack surfaces, are sophisticated analysis of the gestalt view of the ciphertext. It's a known process by which probabilities are understood, and the effective keyspace is reduced to a more viable level that can be brute forced in time periods acceptable to governments and LEO.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.