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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: jokerman2000 on July 11, 2013, 09:23 am
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I just got this program, im encrypting my hard drive. It also offers PGP.
Is this a good program?
Just wondering if i will be good to go with this.
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No. You should never trust any software that isn't open source. There are known backdoors in -- to my knowledge -- virtually every proprietary encryption software package. Astor or kmfkewm can fill you in more, I'm sure, but your answer is "fuck no, you can't trust that."
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The question to ask is why would you even take a risk trusting that shit. Truecrypt is free and open source. Use Truecrypt. A more precise answer is that you really cannot trust proprietary encryption software, and there is no reason for you to. I mean, maybe it is not backdoored, maybe they implemented it correctly, but who knows? Not me, not you, only a few people at Symantec know if it is backdoored or not and not even they know for certain if they implemented it properly, because even with open source software that has no known defects nobody knows if it is implemented properly 99.99% of the time, but because it is open source arbitrary people can try to ascertain if it is correctly implemented.
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Thanks guys gonna uninstall and get Truecrypt. Thankfully I just got it off torrent.