New free open-source on-the-fly encryption system for Windows XP/2000/98 released

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TrueCrypt Team

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Feb 2, 2004, 9:06:45 AM2/2/04
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TrueCrypt 1.0 Released

February 2, 2004

We are proud to announce that TrueCrypt 1.0 has been released today.
To our best knowledge, it is currently the only free open-source
on-the-fly encryption software capable of encrypting partitions
larger than 2 GB under Windows XP/2000. On Windows XP/2000, it is
also the only open-source on-the-fly encryption system that offers
plausible deniability. It can either encrypt entire partitions or
devices, or it can create virtual encrypted disks within files.
TrueCrypt is based on (and might be considered a sequel to) a
discontinued product called Encryption for the Masses (E4M) by Paul
Le Roux. The differences between E4M and TrueCrypt include plausible
deniability, Windows XP support, significant increase in the volume
size limit, improved sector scrambling algorithm and many more.
For more information, please visit www.truecrypt.org

howamidifferent

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Feb 2, 2004, 10:35:35 AM2/2/04
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Downloading and testing asap... :-)


"TrueCrypt Team" <tmp...@truecrypt.org> wrote in message
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privacy.at Anonymous Remailer

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Feb 2, 2004, 2:51:47 PM2/2/04
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:06:45 GMT, in article
<2712cd2944b77868...@news.teranews.com>, TrueCrypt Team
<tmp...@truecrypt.org> wrote:

LOL.

Eat your heart out Shaun "The Whiny Weiner" Hollingsworth.
You can stick your DriveCrypt up your ass for good now.

Now might be a good time to jump ship. SecurStar's future doesn't look good
at all now.
Hahaha............

Italy Anonymous Remailer

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Feb 2, 2004, 3:51:46 PM2/2/04
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On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 14:06:45 GMT, in article
<2712cd2944b77868...@news.teranews.com>, TrueCrypt Team
<tmp...@truecrypt.org> wrote:

LOL.

Sarah Dean

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Feb 2, 2004, 5:21:43 PM2/2/04
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TrueCrypt Team <tmp...@truecrypt.org> wrote in
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>
> TrueCrypt 1.0 Released
>
> February 2, 2004
>
> We are proud to announce that TrueCrypt 1.0 has been released today.

Congratulations on the release!

For those that are interested, I should have a Delphi component to
interface with the TrueCrypt driver SecureTrayUtil fairly soon now,
together with SecureTrayUtil support for this new package.

Shaun Hollingworth

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Feb 2, 2004, 7:46:40 PM2/2/04
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:51:47 +0100 (CET), "privacy.at Anonymous
Remailer" <mixm...@remailer.privacy.at> wrote:

>
>LOL.
>
>Eat your heart out Shaun "The Whiny Weiner" Hollingsworth.
>You can stick your DriveCrypt up your ass for good now.
>
>Now might be a good time to jump ship. SecurStar's future doesn't look good
>at all now.
>Hahaha............
>

And they said I was going mad..... I can just about see this guy in
his straight jacket.......

I wonder if he's posting from his local looney bin ?


Regards,
Shaun.


Italy Anonymous Remailer

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Feb 2, 2004, 9:30:02 PM2/2/04
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

>Shaun.
>

Flush boring post!

privacy.at Anonymous Remailer

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Feb 2, 2004, 9:31:21 PM2/2/04
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

>Shaun.
>

STFU. FOAD asshole/moron/fukkhead!

privacy.at Anonymous Remailer

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Feb 2, 2004, 9:41:10 PM2/2/04
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

<sigh>

Are you still here?
I thought you'd gone and weren't coming back?

Bloody Liar!

N.B. Come back to moan some more have we?
Don't bother, TrueCrypt has accomplished more in VERSION 1 than DriveCrypt
hasn't even been able to do by VERSION 4.

An Metet

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

>Shaun.
>

Flush boring post!

George Orwell

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

>Shaun.
>

STFU. FOAD asshole/moron/fukkhead!

Anonymous

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

>Shaun.
>

Flush boring post!

Anonymous

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

>Shaun.
>

STFU. FOAD asshole/moron/fukkhead!

Nomen Nescio

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
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>Shaun.
>

Flush boring post!

Italy Anonymous Remailer

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Anonymous

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

>Shaun.
>

STFU. FOAD asshole/moron/fukkhead!

Tarapia Tapioco

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

<sigh>

Anonymous Sender

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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:46:40 GMT, in article
<401eeee4....@news-text.dsl.pipex.com>, sh...@NSsecurstar.de (Shaun
Hollingworth) wrote:

>Shaun.
>

STFU. FOAD asshole/moron/fukkhead!

Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer

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Feb 3, 2004, 12:00:42 AM2/3/04
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Keith R Kilby

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Feb 3, 2004, 4:50:40 AM2/3/04
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Would be nice to test but server down!

Frode

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Feb 3, 2004, 5:56:49 AM2/3/04
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Hash: SHA1

Keith R Kilby wrote:
>Would be nice to test but server down!

Try again. I tested it when I first read this message (hm, last night I
think it was) and again now. No problem. Either you stumbled into a
temporary problem or the fault is somewhere with your connection not
theirs.


- --
Frode


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Keith R Kilby

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Feb 3, 2004, 6:35:43 AM2/3/04
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Tested but still the same no dns resolution on the name have you got
their IP?

Keith

John Smith

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Feb 3, 2004, 6:59:31 AM2/3/04
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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:56:49 +0100, in article
<4hvu105v8gnl1hbq6...@4ax.com>, Frode
<ne...@mascot.REMOVETOREPLY.dyndns.org> wrote:

>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA1
>
>Keith R Kilby wrote:
>>Would be nice to test but server down!
>
>Try again. I tested it when I first read this message (hm, last night I
>think it was) and again now. No problem. Either you stumbled into a
>temporary problem or the fault is somewhere with your connection not
>theirs.

FWIW, when I try and access the link via Anonymizer's SSH tunnel, I
get a 'Host not Found' error so I suspect it's something to do with
your connection.

I just d/l version 1.0a with no problem so can confirm it is there and
working.

Frode

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Feb 3, 2004, 8:09:48 AM2/3/04
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Keith R Kilby wrote:
>Tested but still the same no dns resolution on the name have you got
>their IP?

Name: www.truecrypt.org
Address: 65.161.144.72

However a http://65.161.144.72 didn't do much for me apart from giving me a
404. It probably needs the access to be for the hostname as opposed to IP I
suspect. Maybe you have better luck if you add it to your hosts file and
then use the hostname.


- --
Frode

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Keith R Kilby

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Feb 3, 2004, 8:12:19 AM2/3/04
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John or Frode

It looks as if I am having problems with DNS, the namservers I am using
cannot resolve the URL to an IP address. If it is a propagation problem
then the record may come up in 48hrs. Until then I am stuffed unless
anyone can give me Truecrypt's IP address.

Hoping for help

Regards
Keith

"To email:- remove the obvious and the full stops before @"

cymago

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Feb 3, 2004, 9:02:50 AM2/3/04
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> For more information, please visit www.truecrypt.org

Lost in Web space. Google search for Web: no page with truecrypt or
truecrypt.org


howamidifferent

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Feb 3, 2004, 9:14:12 AM2/3/04
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I see its been modified already...No 9x suppport driver..

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Entropy

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"cymago" <cym...@nospam.com> wrote in news:401faa0d$0$3262
$626a...@news.free.fr:

>> For more information, please visit www.truecrypt.org
>
> Lost in Web space. Google search for Web: no page with truecrypt or
> truecrypt.org

New sites do not show on google that fast (sometimes it can even take a
month before a new site shows up).

Keith R Kilby

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Feb 3, 2004, 9:24:23 AM2/3/04
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Frode

Thanks for the IP and I get the same error 404 but doing are reverse
lookup on the IP I get net-144-72.microworld.com/ so I suspect the site
is hosted and there are some problems with the DNS and the hosting.

Thanks anyway for your help and I'll keep trying the address and from
another site as well.

Regards
Keith

cymago

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Feb 3, 2004, 9:35:34 AM2/3/04
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> New sites do not show on google that fast (sometimes it can even take a
> month before a new site shows up).

Curious, but numerous entries in the "Groups" section:
alt.security.scramdisk Date :2004-02-02 15:27:03 PST


cymago

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Feb 3, 2004, 9:42:52 AM2/3/04
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and tracert 65.161.144.72 works:
12 165 ms 167 ms 179 ms sl-microworld-1-0.sprintlink.net
[160.81.203.42]
13 183 ms 166 ms 167 ms net-144-72.microworld.com [65.161.144.72]


howamidifferent

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Feb 3, 2004, 10:21:58 AM2/3/04
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I had no problem . Downloaded version 1.0 yesterday. 1.0a today. No issue.

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> i managed to contact the truecrypt site yesterday [monday gmt] but
> today i cannot [either by ip or url]. strange. some kind of trick to
> get people to download a trojan?

cymago

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Feb 3, 2004, 10:43:41 AM2/3/04
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Google in cache:
Site to be launched soon...


howamidifferent

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Feb 3, 2004, 10:45:30 AM2/3/04
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Yep...its down to me now also...

"Crabbit" <otk...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> still getting domain name not found from BT dns

>

> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:21:58 GMT, "howamidifferent"

howamidifferent

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Feb 3, 2004, 10:48:46 AM2/3/04
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And as for a trojan...Not saying I've looked at the code in any detail but I
did download it...Both versions...

"Crabbit" <otk...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> i managed to contact the truecrypt site yesterday [monday gmt] but
> today i cannot [either by ip or url]. strange. some kind of trick to
> get people to download a trojan?
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 14:14:12 GMT, "howamidifferent"
> <howamid...@mail.anonymizer.com> wrote:
>