Die Pressemitteilung des Frauenhofer Institut SIT haben in den letzten Tagen einige Medien zum Anlass genommen um die Windows eigene Verschlüsselung BitLocker als geknackt zu bezeichnen. Leider haben die Journalisten hier die Pressemittelung nicht sehr aufmerksam gelesen. Es wird lediglich ein sehr unwahrscheinlicher Angriff (nicht auf die Verschlüsselung) von BitLocker beschrieben.

Nils Kaczenski hat dazu einen sehr schönen Artikel in seinem Blog veröffentlich.

Die Entwickler haben heute die neuste Version von TrueCrypt frei gegeben welche folgende neuen Funktionen / Verbesserungen mit bringt:

New features:

• The I/O pipeline now uses read-ahead buffering, which improves read performance especially on solid-state drives, typically by 30-50%.  (Windows)

Improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements:

• The boot loader now supports motherboards with BIOSes that reserve large amounts of base memory (typically for onboard RAID controllers). Note: In order to be able to take advantage of this improvement under Windows Vista, you will have to install Service Pack 1 or higher first. Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista resolved an issue causing a shortage of free base memory during system boot.  (Windows Vista/XP/2008/2003)
• Mounting using the ‘Auto-Mount Devices‘ feature may take significantly less time as partitions containing unencrypted filesystems are now skipped.  (Windows)
• When volumes that are mounted as read-only or removable are saved as favorite volumes, they are mounted as read-only and/or removable when ‘Mount Favorite Volumes‘ is used.
• When a multiple-pass wipe algorithm is selected when performing in-place encryption of a non-system volume, the header areas will be wiped before the encrypted headers are written to the disk. Note: On an existing volume, you can perform such an operation by changing its password and/or keyfiles.  (Windows)
• Many other minor improvements, bug fixes and security enhancements.  (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux)