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”.

  1. 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.
  2. The framework has no final API defined yet, due to point 1.
  3. 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”.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 

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:

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):

Read more

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 

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