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Are there any 'better' (knowing it's all relative) alternatives for what TrueCrypt provides?
Nothing remotely as peer-reviewed and time-tested and open-source.
This suggests that e.g. dm-crypt is definitely more "open-source", and may in fact be better audited. I guess TC is still more "time-tested".
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Cold boot attacks don't work on DDR3
Why? Do you have any reference?
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That's always been impossible.
Not always (as long as you're talking about something they are in possession of, you're right if you mean you can't prove that you don't have some flash drive hidden somewhere but, then again, it need not be encrypted if they don't have access to it). To start simply, it's certainly possible to prove that a disk installed with a base install of an OS (and then never touched) contains no encrypted volumes if all of th…
Am I wrong or outdated on this?
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That's always been impossible.
Not always (as long as you're talking about something they are in possession of, you're right if you mean you can't prove that you don't have some flash drive hidden somewhere but, then again, it need not be encrypted if they don't have access to it). To start simply, it's certainly possible to prove that a disk installed with a base install of an OS (and then never touched) contains no encrypted volumes if all of th…
So in that framework "stored somewhere" is a long ways from "You can characterize the contents of a known drive".
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Why? Do you have any reference?
Here's a paper on the subject http://www1.cs.fau.de/filepool/projects/coldboot/fares_coldb...