Mail Call, Protecting sensitive information with Truecrypt, An overview of building your own NAS system67 min. 9 sec.
Join Ron Nutter for the next installment of Ron Nutter's Help Desk Tool Chest. First off is Mail Call where listeners questions are answered. This weeks Tools of the Trade is using TrueCrypt to protect sensitive data. In Hot off the Press, New Products or significant announcements are discussed. With the number of recent questions about NAS storage we take the HowTo Corner give give a detailed overview of building your own system.
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bcrypt
Bcrypt is a cross platform file encryption utility. Encrypted files are portable across all supported operating systems and processors. Passphrases must be between 8 and 56 characters and are hashed internally to a 448 bit key. However, all characters supplied are significant. The stronger your passphrase, the more secure your data.
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Aes-Up - File Encryption with Data Recovery
***Free for 30 days***
Aes-Up is a high-security file encryption utility. It offers optimum protection for your most sensitive documents, whilst being both simple and intuitive to use. Aes-Up includes a unique, enterprise-wide data recovery facility solving the problem of lost passwords, without compromising your security. This is not a 'back door' that would allow an attacker to access your data. Access is exclusively under your control. Our White Paper, available from our website, provides full technical details.
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John the Ripper
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 LM hashes, plus several more with contributed patches.
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Cain and Abel
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some security aspects/weakness present in protocol's standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some "non standard" utilities for Microsoft Windows users.
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bf_wep
bf_wep is going to be a deamon like application for both windows and linux that will encrypt outgoing messages of TCP or UDP and send it over you wired or wireless connection. This should protect from wardriving attacks and arp attacks.
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bmpPacker
bmpPacker is a FREEWARE encrypting software
which uses a very common graphic file format as a data container. The resulting file is a bitmap file which is 100% compatible to the Windows BMP format. But the only chance to decode (& optional decrypt) these files is if you use bmpPacker also.
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AxCrypt
AxCrypt is free and easy to use open source strong file encryption for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP, integrated with Windows Explorer. Encrypt, compress, decrypt, wipe, view and edit with a few mouse clicks. Cryptographic primitives are AES-128 and SHA-1.
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ABC CHAOS
What can you do with ABC CHAOS? Easily encrypt files into your personal data archive. You can be confident that the data is safely secured. The additional special protection completely excludes an opportunity of selection of the password to the encrypted information at use of the generator of the passwords and keys.
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EncryptOnClick
EncryptOnClick is a program that lets you securely encrypt and decrypt files. EncryptOnClick is like hiring your own highly experienced data security guard who ensures the files you want to keep safe and out of view from others stay that way. The program is very simple to use and features military grade 256-bit AES encryption.
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