Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Sophie Hunt]

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Hi, 

I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to follow up on the email I sent you the other day; copy included below for reference:

		On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie Hunt <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
		
			 Hi,

I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as you may be aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back in 2014 and has subsequently not been maintained. A number of security flaws have been uncovered and as a result we are reaching out to people to highlight a list of alternatives.

Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt no longer being maintained) - https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-discoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update your page it could be a useful resource to point your visitors to.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

-Sophie


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Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Arno Wagner]

Hi,

you are free to maintain your page yourself. I doubt 
anybody here cares about it.

Regards,
Arno

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:49:19 CET, Sophie Hunt wrote:
>    Hi,
>    I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to follow up on
>    the email I sent you the other day; copy included below for reference:
>    On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie Hunt
>    <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
> 
>      Hi,
>      I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page
>      https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as you may be
>      aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back in 2014 and
>      has subsequently not been maintained. A number of security flaws
>      have been uncovered and as a result we are reaching out to people to
>      highlight a list of alternatives.
>      Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt no
>      longer being maintained) -
>      https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-d
>      iscoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update your page
>      it could be a useful resource to point your visitors to.
>      Please let me know if you have any questions.
>      -Sophie

> _______________________________________________
> dm-crypt mailing list
> dm-crypt@saout.de
> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt


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----
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato

If it's in the news, don't worry about it.  The very definition of 
"news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier

Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Sven Eschenberg]

Hi Arno,

I think this is simple UBE for clickbaiting. It's probably best to 
blacklist the whole domain and the sending host on the server handling 
the mailinglist.

Regards

-Sven


Am 28.12.2016 um 17:20 schrieb Arno Wagner:
> Hi,
>
> you are free to maintain your page yourself. I doubt
> anybody here cares about it.
>
> Regards,
> Arno
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:49:19 CET, Sophie Hunt wrote:
>>    Hi,
>>    I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to follow up on
>>    the email I sent you the other day; copy included below for reference:
>>    On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie Hunt
>>    <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>      Hi,
>>      I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page
>>      https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as you may be
>>      aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back in 2014 and
>>      has subsequently not been maintained. A number of security flaws
>>      have been uncovered and as a result we are reaching out to people to
>>      highlight a list of alternatives.
>>      Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt no
>>      longer being maintained) -
>>      https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-d
>>      iscoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update your page
>>      it could be a useful resource to point your visitors to.
>>      Please let me know if you have any questions.
>>      -Sophie
>
>> _______________________________________________
>> dm-crypt mailing list
>> dm-crypt@saout.de
>> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
>
>

Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Arno Wagner]

I had a look at it now and I agree. They apparently list LUKS
as a TrueCrypt alternative on Windows, which is just clueless.

Regards,
Arno

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 17:41:26 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote:
> Hi Arno,
> 
> I think this is simple UBE for clickbaiting. It's probably best to
> blacklist the whole domain and the sending host on the server
> handling the mailinglist.
> 
> Regards
> 
> -Sven
> 
> 
> Am 28.12.2016 um 17:20 schrieb Arno Wagner:
> >Hi,
> >
> >you are free to maintain your page yourself. I doubt
> >anybody here cares about it.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Arno
> >
> >On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:49:19 CET, Sophie Hunt wrote:
> >>   Hi,
> >>   I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to follow up on
> >>   the email I sent you the other day; copy included below for reference:
> >>   On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie Hunt
> >>   <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Hi,
> >>     I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page
> >>     https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as you may be
> >>     aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back in 2014 and
> >>     has subsequently not been maintained. A number of security flaws
> >>     have been uncovered and as a result we are reaching out to people to
> >>     highlight a list of alternatives.
> >>     Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt no
> >>     longer being maintained) -
> >>     https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-d
> >>     iscoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update your page
> >>     it could be a useful resource to point your visitors to.
> >>     Please let me know if you have any questions.
> >>     -Sophie
> >
> >>_______________________________________________
> >>dm-crypt mailing list
> >>dm-crypt@saout.de
> >>http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> dm-crypt mailing list
> dm-crypt@saout.de
> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt

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GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718  FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF  B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718
----
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato

If it's in the news, don't worry about it.  The very definition of 
"news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier

Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Laurence Darby]

I'm not sure if that was true before but it's not now.  

The original point of this thread is that cryptsetup's man page is
still linking http://www.truecrypt.org as if that was still useful,
it's not spam at all.

Laurence


On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:55:47 +0100 Arno Wagner wrote:

> I had a look at it now and I agree. They apparently list LUKS
> as a TrueCrypt alternative on Windows, which is just clueless.
> 
> Regards,
> Arno
> 
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 17:41:26 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote:
> > Hi Arno,
> > 
> > I think this is simple UBE for clickbaiting. It's probably best to
> > blacklist the whole domain and the sending host on the server
> > handling the mailinglist.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > -Sven
> > 
> > 
> > Am 28.12.2016 um 17:20 schrieb Arno Wagner:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >you are free to maintain your page yourself. I doubt
> > >anybody here cares about it.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Arno
> > >
> > >On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:49:19 CET, Sophie Hunt wrote:
> > >>   Hi,
> > >>   I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to
> > >> follow up on the email I sent you the other day; copy included
> > >> below for reference: On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie
> > >> Hunt <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>     Hi,
> > >>     I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page
> > >>     https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as
> > >> you may be aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back
> > >> in 2014 and has subsequently not been maintained. A number of
> > >> security flaws have been uncovered and as a result we are
> > >> reaching out to people to highlight a list of alternatives.
> > >>     Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt
> > >> no longer being maintained) -
> > >>     https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-d
> > >>     iscoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update
> > >> your page it could be a useful resource to point your visitors
> > >> to. Please let me know if you have any questions.
> > >>     -Sophie
> > >
> > >>_______________________________________________
> > >>dm-crypt mailing list
> > >>dm-crypt@saout.de
> > >>http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> > >
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > dm-crypt mailing list
> > dm-crypt@saout.de
> > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> 
> -- 
> Arno Wagner,     Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform.,    Email:
> arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718  FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF
> B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718
> ----
> A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato
> 
> If it's in the news, don't worry about it.  The very definition of 
> "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier
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Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Milan Broz]

On 01/03/2017 09:49 PM, Laurence Darby wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if that was true before but it's not now.  
> 
> The original point of this thread is that cryptsetup's man page is
> still linking http://www.truecrypt.org as if that was still useful,
> it's not spam at all.

Yes, this one reference was missed. I changed it so it points to wikipedia
now, there are links to other projects derived from TrueCrypt.

Thanks,
Milan

Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Sven Eschenberg]

The original post referenced an autogenerated htmlpage, derived from an 
elderly man-page. The original post had no point, as man pages are not 
hypertext and don't link anywhere.

The reference (to tcrypt) is outdated, since TC is dead and should be 
removed. As simple as that.

Aside from that, the original post was (auto)generated as clickbait, it 
just does not make sense at all. No human would write such a pile of 
steaming bs.

Neither was TC 'shared' (claim) on the autogenerated page, nor is an 
autogenerated html on some arbitrary host under cryptsetup project's 
control (claim). Further there's no alternative to cryptsetups TC legacy 
mode, as claimed by the mail. It is just part of cryptsetup and limited 
to using the container. On top of that, the link to the blog post by 
some mischievous company with the intention to get known better is 
clickbaiting, no matter how you look at it.

And that certainly qualifies as spam.

Regards

-Sven


Am 03.01.2017 um 21:49 schrieb Laurence Darby:
>
> I'm not sure if that was true before but it's not now.
>
> The original point of this thread is that cryptsetup's man page is
> still linking http://www.truecrypt.org as if that was still useful,
> it's not spam at all.
>
> Laurence
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:55:47 +0100 Arno Wagner wrote:
>
>> I had a look at it now and I agree. They apparently list LUKS
>> as a TrueCrypt alternative on Windows, which is just clueless.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arno
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 17:41:26 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote:
>>> Hi Arno,
>>>
>>> I think this is simple UBE for clickbaiting. It's probably best to
>>> blacklist the whole domain and the sending host on the server
>>> handling the mailinglist.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> -Sven
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 28.12.2016 um 17:20 schrieb Arno Wagner:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> you are free to maintain your page yourself. I doubt
>>>> anybody here cares about it.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Arno
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:49:19 CET, Sophie Hunt wrote:
>>>>>   Hi,
>>>>>   I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to
>>>>> follow up on the email I sent you the other day; copy included
>>>>> below for reference: On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie
>>>>> Hunt <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>     Hi,
>>>>>     I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page
>>>>>     https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as
>>>>> you may be aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back
>>>>> in 2014 and has subsequently not been maintained. A number of
>>>>> security flaws have been uncovered and as a result we are
>>>>> reaching out to people to highlight a list of alternatives.
>>>>>     Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt
>>>>> no longer being maintained) -
>>>>>     https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-d
>>>>>     iscoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update
>>>>> your page it could be a useful resource to point your visitors
>>>>> to. Please let me know if you have any questions.
>>>>>     -Sophie
>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> dm-crypt mailing list
>>>>> dm-crypt@saout.de
>>>>> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
>>>>
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> dm-crypt mailing list
>>> dm-crypt@saout.de
>>> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
>>
>> --
>> Arno Wagner,     Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform.,    Email:
>> arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718  FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF
>> B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718
>> ----
>> A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato
>>
>> If it's in the news, don't worry about it.  The very definition of
>> "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier
>> _______________________________________________
>> dm-crypt mailing list
>> dm-crypt@saout.de
>> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> _______________________________________________
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> dm-crypt@saout.de
> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
>

Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Laurence Darby]

eh?  It'd have to be a pretty advanced AI that can point out where
cryptsetup's documentation is outdated.  

Yes, it's spammy, and they used slightly confusing language, but at
the same time it was doing cryptsetup a favour so I really don't get
what your problem is.


On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 16:31:02 +0100 Sven Eschenberg wrote:

> The original post referenced an autogenerated htmlpage, derived from
> an elderly man-page. The original post had no point, as man pages are
> not hypertext and don't link anywhere.
> 
> The reference (to tcrypt) is outdated, since TC is dead and should be 
> removed. As simple as that.
> 
> Aside from that, the original post was (auto)generated as clickbait,
> it just does not make sense at all. No human would write such a pile
> of steaming bs.
> 
> Neither was TC 'shared' (claim) on the autogenerated page, nor is an 
> autogenerated html on some arbitrary host under cryptsetup project's 
> control (claim). Further there's no alternative to cryptsetups TC
> legacy mode, as claimed by the mail. It is just part of cryptsetup
> and limited to using the container. On top of that, the link to the
> blog post by some mischievous company with the intention to get known
> better is clickbaiting, no matter how you look at it.
> 
> And that certainly qualifies as spam.
> 
> Regards
> 
> -Sven
> 
> 
> Am 03.01.2017 um 21:49 schrieb Laurence Darby:
> >
> > I'm not sure if that was true before but it's not now.
> >
> > The original point of this thread is that cryptsetup's man page is
> > still linking http://www.truecrypt.org as if that was still useful,
> > it's not spam at all.
> >
> > Laurence
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 20:55:47 +0100 Arno Wagner wrote:
> >
> >> I had a look at it now and I agree. They apparently list LUKS
> >> as a TrueCrypt alternative on Windows, which is just clueless.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Arno
> >>
> >> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 17:41:26 CET, Sven Eschenberg wrote:
> >>> Hi Arno,
> >>>
> >>> I think this is simple UBE for clickbaiting. It's probably best to
> >>> blacklist the whole domain and the sending host on the server
> >>> handling the mailinglist.
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>
> >>> -Sven
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Am 28.12.2016 um 17:20 schrieb Arno Wagner:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> you are free to maintain your page yourself. I doubt
> >>>> anybody here cares about it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Arno
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:49:19 CET, Sophie Hunt wrote:
> >>>>>   Hi,
> >>>>>   I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to
> >>>>> follow up on the email I sent you the other day; copy included
> >>>>> below for reference: On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie
> >>>>> Hunt <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     Hi,
> >>>>>     I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page
> >>>>>     https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as
> >>>>> you may be aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back
> >>>>> in 2014 and has subsequently not been maintained. A number of
> >>>>> security flaws have been uncovered and as a result we are
> >>>>> reaching out to people to highlight a list of alternatives.
> >>>>>     Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt
> >>>>> no longer being maintained) -
> >>>>>     https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-d
> >>>>>     iscoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update
> >>>>> your page it could be a useful resource to point your visitors
> >>>>> to. Please let me know if you have any questions.
> >>>>>     -Sophie
> >>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> dm-crypt mailing list
> >>>>> dm-crypt@saout.de
> >>>>> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> dm-crypt mailing list
> >>> dm-crypt@saout.de
> >>> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> >>
> >> --
> >> Arno Wagner,     Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform.,    Email:
> >> arno@wagner.name GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718  FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF
> >> B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718
> >> ----
> >> A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato
> >>
> >> If it's in the news, don't worry about it.  The very definition of
> >> "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> dm-crypt mailing list
> >> dm-crypt@saout.de
> >> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> > _______________________________________________
> > dm-crypt mailing list
> > dm-crypt@saout.de
> > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
> >
> _______________________________________________
> dm-crypt mailing list
> dm-crypt@saout.de
> http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt

Re: [dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Sophie Hunt]

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Hi,

You've had a couple of emails from me over the last few weeks but I haven't heard back.   Perhaps there is someone else I should reach out to instead?  

You can see my previous email below -
		On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Sophie Hunt <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
		
			 Hi, 

I appreciate that you're probably busy so I just wanted to follow up on the email I sent you the other day; copy included below for reference:

		On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Sophie Hunt <sophie.hunt@ctechemail.com> wrote:
		
			 Hi,

I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as you may be aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back in 2014 and has subsequently not been maintained. A number of security flaws have been uncovered and as a result we are reaching out to people to highlight a list of alternatives.

Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt no longer being maintained) - https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-discoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update your page it could be a useful resource to point your visitors to.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

-Sophie


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[dm-crypt] TrueCrypt is discontinued - here are the alternatives

[Sophie Hunt]

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Hi,

I noticed you've shared TrueCrypt on this page https://unstable.nl/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+cryptsetup, as you may be aware, development of TrueCrypt was discontinued back in 2014 and has subsequently not been maintained. A number of security flaws have been uncovered and as a result we are reaching out to people to highlight a list of alternatives.

Here's the list (along with further details about TrueCrypt no longer being maintained) - https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/truecrypt-is-discoutinued-try-these-free-alternatives/, when you update your page it could be a useful resource to point your visitors to.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

-Sophie
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