Truecrypt 5.0 is OUT!

OK guys, TrueCrypt 5.0 is really out and it really rocks Bashing the guys at TC was a sort of speedup for a work that, we’re sure, without our contribution would have been unpublished for at least another couple of years.

Some little difference in TC and OSXCrypt must be taken in account:

OSXCrypt is a kernel module, and not based on MacFuse. That gives the project a really different approach.
The OSXCrypt Framework is based on the paradigm of implementing a modular kernel module that can be used with OTHER cyphers. Implementing dm-cryppt on mac, for example, is now trivially easy.
The GUI is coming even here, thanks to the efforts of a volunteer.

And to the TC guys: you rock and you finally did it. Thanks! Really.

We’ve been waiting for this Mac version for three years and we committed ourself to porting it only when all the other approaches (financing, lending an hand, handgun intimidation…) failed miserably.
We still think that without our contribution the MAC community would have been left without this wonderful software for long time. Maybe we’re wring, maybe we’re not.
Trolling isn’t always an answer, but sometimes it pays out. We did it for the lulz….

And if some funder want their money back, ask freely and we’ll return it.
We think we not only fulfilled our promise, but we exceeded the expectations you were putting on us.

Time to go on! Stay tuned!

matteo.

February 6, 2008 | Filed Under notes | 17 Comments

They told you…

..that by the end of January TrueCrypt 5.0 would have been online…
After that they shut the Forums down…
After That they postponed the release to February 4th just as soon as we published the first alpha…

It’s February 5th and NO Truecrypt 5.0 is in the air…

Smelling funny, isn’t it?
In the meanwhile you can download OSXCrypt and be happy!

February 4, 2008 | Filed Under notes | 19 Comments

OSXCrypt-6.2A and Source Code released

Ok, from now on OSXCrypt is to be considered fully complete in the features, including the change password one that was still missing.

You can download it now and you can even download the full source code if you wish to do a closer inspection on the internals of the implementation.

Even if this is supposed to be an alpha (may we say pre-beta?), considering the several hundreds of downloads and the complete lack of problem reporting please consider this to be a safe enough to use it, as long as you keep regular backups (but you ALWAYS do it, don’t you?).
Orlando is even more the man and the quality of this release is once again proof of that.

Happy ~~Porn~~ Secrets again, now with even more confidence!

January 27, 2008 | Filed Under releases | 7 Comments

Some clarification: no spaghetti code, only tight integration and BETA quality

Some day ago I (Matteo) gave the wrong impression that the coder (Orlando) wasn’t releasing the code due to “spaghetti” coding. Well, that is not a case and it’s time to say the truth about Orlando’s work:

Here is what HE says:

We’d like to address some points why this version is retained still “alpha”.

Initially, the request was to write a straight port of TrueCrypt for the MacOS X platform, in the middle of the development, the request changed to support different encryption schemes, at that time the port was almost complete and functional.

The framework has no final API defined yet, due to point 1.

Given point 1 and 2, the code in “ocutil” is pretty tightened to TCrypt framework, that is the reason we had to put it back in “alpha” stage, really this is a “beta” more than “alpha”.

Given point 3, the code is no spaghetti in the strict sense of the word, it’s just spaghetti in terms of final goals. You can see for yourself, this time the source code is public.

There may be corner cases (expecially with partition or whole disk encryption) that we and others didn’t had the time to test throughly.

You know, better safe than sorrow.

To summarize: the project is alpha quality in terms of goals but beta quality in terms of functionality.

So, at the end of it, USE it. It will not kill your computer . Only be careful in case of Whole Disk or Partition encryption. The software is to be considered safe if proper backup are done…

January 27, 2008 | Filed Under administration, notes | 3 Comments

This is not a scam: Real Truecrypt for MacOs is here!

Ok guys, you accused us of cheating, scamming, phishing, terrorism and even stolen candies but at the end of it we’re OUT with the First OpenSource Platform for Volume Encryption on MacOs X (aka ‘Look, mom! Truecrypt on my Macbook!’).
Having the opportunity to not trust FileVault has never been so sweet…

So, thanks to the Funders (hey guys, you Rock. Really.) and thanks to the Staff (being Orlando Bassotto, Matteo Flora and Fabio Pietrosanti) now you can play with it. This is the REAL stuff.

Grab it in the Download page and if you wish look at the Tutorial.

Get ready and Happy ~~Porn~~ Secrets!

DIGG IT!

P.S.: Hey, OSS Community! After the source code release the OSX Framework will allow the implementation of a lot more file based encrypted formats (LoopAES, DMCrypt, Luks, PGP).

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P.S.2: Hey, where is Truecrypt 5.0 released in January? And where are the Forums on Truecrypt site?
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UPDATE: AptGetUpdate.de has already published a Tutorial!

January 23, 2008 | Filed Under administration, releases | 14 Comments

First alpha 5 public release is coming!

Hello people!

We are pleased to announce that Alpha 5 release of OSXCrypt will be published on Friday 25th of January 2007!

Alpha release 1.0.0a4 is being tested and bugfixed, if you want to test it please write us or be clever! Otherwise wait for the Alpha 5 on Friday 25th January 2007!

OSXCrypt already fully support TrueCrypt-compatible volumes so we can finally use the same encrypted volume on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!

The OSXCrypt package include an automatic graphical installer even if it still has a command line interface.

Maybe other funding could useful for developing a User Interface, port other encryption framework and introduce utilities like self-update, keychain integration and whatever other useful feature we can think about it!

Sources will be released after some cleanup prepared for the Beta release.

Alpha5 introduce Truecrypt-compatible hidden volume support feature. The only limitation will be the Password Change support that will be introduced in Alpha6. After Alpha6 we will have the Beta along with source code cleanup.

January 23, 2008 | Filed Under releases | 1 Comment

Got success with kernel based encryption filter!

First of all we would like to announce that, during the development, we realized that this project will not be a simple port of truecrypt to Mac OS X, but this will provide a multiple enciphered disks support encryption platform for the Apple operating system.

Why?

Because OSXCRYPT will be an open platform, open to all the developer of encryption systems such as LUKS, LOOP-AES, PGPDISK, TRUECRYPT, etc, etc .
The platform will provide a dynamic kernel extension along with an installer and a easy to use cocoa interface.
The OSXCRYPT platform will support as a first encrypted volume technology the truecrypt file based images but the end goal is to provide to Mac OS X users full access to most of the file based volume encryption system around the net.

Today we successfully tested the encryption filter (with a simple XOR, but it’s enough for testing!) and the communication between user space and kernel space. Below more details to test it.

The next goals to be reached are:

Parameters communications between user space and kernel space (required to initialize the encryption systems running in kernel space)
truecrypt encryption volume logic porting inside the kernel extension as a module of OSXCRYPT- Implementation of user interface with cocoa framework
Documentation of the system
Beta release (required for beta testing)

We invite everyone to test the basic kernel module encrypting (with a simple and unsecure XOR) the volumes with “ANTANI” (Please consider that this module work at “Partition level” but that we will implement the “Disk level” enciphering later):

December 16, 2007 | Filed Under administration, release | 14 Comments

Habemus Sourceforge!

…which means “We Have Sourceforge”. And you can find it here SourceForge…

Stay tuned, in the next few hours the show will start

December 13, 2007 | Filed Under administration | 3 Comments

Hudston, we’re coming!

Don’t worry, we’ve not run away with the mone… $.1.500,00 are far too few to run anywhere

We’ve set-up the SourceForge account (waiting for approval), fixed the mailing lists, prepared the blog and the developer is actively examining the original TrueCrypt source code to start playing around.

Stay tuned (or subscrive the RSS feed) to be informed of every single news.

Time is scarce in the pre-holiday season…

November 26, 2007 | Filed Under administration | 2 Comments