ROCA – Return of Coppersmith’s Attack

So it is big in the news this week, ROCA, what’s the deal? I’m not going to cover this in detail yet, however here is what you need to know now: The ROCA vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2017-15361) enables computation of RSA private keys from their public certificate/key counterparts.  The flaw affects the implementation of RSA …

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VeraCrypt takes a minute to pre-boot authenticate

VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software, that is based on TrueCrypt 7.1a. If you are suffering slow boot up with VeraCrypt, you password takes ages to be accepted or slow pre boot authentication then read on… When I first tested VeraCrypt with Windows 10, I had problems with it taking around a minute to …

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VeraCrypt on Windows 10 64bit, now TrueCrypt has gone

If you have upgraded to Windows 10, it is likely you will run into problems enabling full disk encryption / system encryption with VeraCrypt due to the GPT configuration of your disk. If your prepared to reload your computer, you can achieve full disk encryption, on Windows 10 home, at no cost. (Providing your disk …

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The need for Full Disk Encryption (FDE) / System Encryption

With the increasing number of mobile computing devices the fixed desktop PC in the home has been on the decrease, in favour of a mix of mobile platforms. Whilst a number of people use their mobile or tablet devices for browsing the web, there is a large number of laptops in use which do not …

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