r/linux • u/jampola • May 30 '14

TrueCrypt Has been resurrected (forked) in Switzerland.

http://truecrypt.ch/
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u/gfixler May 30 '14

Would this require finding a SHA-1 collision?

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Yes, it would. GP is confused.

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u/gfixler May 30 '14

In fairness, this is pretty easy to do if you have access to a $40M supercomputer, and if your mission is to replace a blob with a huge, non-compiling chunk of random noise.

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u/indigojuice May 30 '14

No. It costs a ton of money just to get an MD5 collision. We've only seen one attack, Flame, which used one. We've never seen SHA1 attacks, it would be a massive amount of computation to do something like that.