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TrueCrypt is a discontinued source-available freeware utility used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE).^[1]

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Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a discontinued software suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications developed by Adobe Systems.

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Adobe Inc.

Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.

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Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS.

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The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael, is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.

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AES instruction set

An AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) instruction set is a set of instructions that are specifically designed to perform AES encryption and decryption operations efficiently.

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Affidavit

An italic (Medieval Latin for "he has declared under oath") is a written statement voluntarily made by an affiant or deponent under an oath or affirmation which is administered by a person who is authorized to do so by law.

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Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

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Arbitrary code execution

In computer security, arbitrary code execution (ACE) is an attacker's ability to run any commands or code of the attacker's choice on a target machine or in a target process.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Assembly language

In computer programming, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM or asm, is any low-level programming language with a very strong correspondence between the instructions in the language and the architecture's machine code instructions.

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Backward compatibility

In telecommunications and computing, backward compatibility (or backwards compatibility) is a property of an operating system, software, real-world product, or technology that allows for interoperability with an older legacy system, or with input designed for such a system.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bit

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication.

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BitLocker

BitLocker is a full volume encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows versions starting with Windows Vista. TrueCrypt and BitLocker are cryptographic software and disk encryption.

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Black Hat Briefings

Black Hat Briefings (commonly referred to as Black Hat) is a computer security conference that provides security consulting, training, and briefings to hackers, corporations, and government agencies around the world.

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Block cipher mode of operation

In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity.

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Boing Boing

Boing Boing is a website, first established as a zine in 1988, later becoming a group blog.

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Booting

In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button on the computer or by a software command.

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Bootloader

A bootloader, also spelled as boot loader or called bootstrap loader, is a computer program that is responsible for booting a computer.

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Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier (born January 15, 1963) is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer.

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Bus mastering

In computing, bus mastering is a feature supported by many bus architectures that enables a device connected to the bus to initiate direct memory access (DMA) transactions.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language. TrueCrypt and c (programming language) are Cross-platform software.

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C++

C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. TrueCrypt and C++ are Cross-platform software.

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Child pornography

Child pornography (also called CP, child sexual abuse material, CSAM, child porn, kiddie porn) is erotic material that depicts persons under the designated age of majority.

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Cipher

In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.

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Cold boot attack

In computer security, a cold boot attack (or to a lesser extent, a platform reset attack) is a type of side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer performs a memory dump of a computer's random-access memory (RAM) by performing a hard reset of the target machine. TrueCrypt and cold boot attack are disk encryption.

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Comparison of disk encryption software

This is a technical feature comparison of different disk encryption software. TrueCrypt and comparison of disk encryption software are cryptographic software and disk encryption.

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Comparison of free and open-source software licenses

This comparison only covers software licenses which have a linked Wikipedia article for details and which are approved by at least one of the following expert groups: the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, the Debian Project and the Fedora Project.

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Computer forensics

Computer forensics (also known as computer forensic science) is a branch of digital forensic science pertaining to evidence found in computers and digital storage media.

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Concordia University

Concordia University (Université Concordia) is a public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.

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Cryptanalysis

Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden", and analýein, "to analyze") refers to the process of analyzing information systems in order to understand hidden aspects of the systems.

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Cryptographic hash function

A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of n bits) that has special properties desirable for a cryptographic application.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe.

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Daniel Dantas (entrepreneur)

Daniel Valente Dantas is a Brazilian entrepreneur.

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Data parallelism

Data parallelism is parallelization across multiple processors in parallel computing environments.

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Data recovery

In computing, data recovery is a process of retrieving deleted, inaccessible, lost, corrupted, damaged, or formatted data from secondary storage, removable media or files, when the data stored in them cannot be accessed in a usual way.

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Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

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David Miranda (politician)

David Michael dos Santos Miranda (10 May 1985 – 9 May 2023) was a Brazilian politician.

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Democracy Now!

Democracy Now! is an hour-long TV, radio, and Internet news program based in Manhattan and hosted by journalists Amy Goodman (who also acts as the show's executive producer), Juan González, and Nermeen Shaikh.

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Deniable encryption

In cryptography and steganography, plausibly deniable encryption describes encryption techniques where the existence of an encrypted file or message is deniable in the sense that an adversary cannot prove that the plaintext data exists.

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Dictionary attack

In cryptanalysis and computer security, a dictionary attack is an attack using a restricted subset of a keyspace to defeat a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase, sometimes trying thousands or millions of likely possibilities often obtained from lists of past security breaches.

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Digital signature

A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for verifying the authenticity of digital messages or documents.

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Direct memory access

Direct memory access (DMA) is a feature of computer systems that allows certain hardware subsystems to access main system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU).

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Disk encryption

Disk encryption is a technology which protects information by converting it into code that cannot be deciphered easily by unauthorized people or processes.

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Disk encryption software

Disk encryption software is a computer security software that protects the confidentiality of data stored on computer media (e.g., a hard disk, floppy disk, or USB device) by using disk encryption. TrueCrypt and disk encryption software are cryptographic software and disk encryption.

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Disk encryption theory

Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage medium is a sector-addressable device (e.g., a hard disk). TrueCrypt and disk encryption theory are disk encryption.

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Disk partitioning

Disk partitioning or disk slicing is the creation of one or more regions on secondary storage, so that each region can be managed separately.

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Dm-crypt

dm-crypt is a transparent block device encryption subsystem in Linux kernel versions 2.6 and later and in DragonFly BSD. TrueCrypt and dm-crypt are cryptographic software and disk encryption.

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Domain name

In the Internet, a domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control.

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DragonFly BSD

DragonFly BSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system forked from FreeBSD 4.8.

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E4M

Encryption for the Masses (E4M) is a free disk encryption software for Windows NT and Windows 9x families of operating systems. TrueCrypt and E4M are cryptographic software and disk encryption.

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Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former American NSA intelligence contractor and a whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.

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Evil maid attack

An evil maid attack is an attack on an unattended device, in which an attacker with physical access alters it in some undetectable way so that they can later access the device, or the data on it.

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Executable

In computer science, executable code, an executable file, or an executable program, sometimes simply referred to as an executable or binary, causes a computer "to perform indicated tasks according to encoded instructions", as opposed to a data file that must be interpreted (parsed) by an interpreter to be functional.

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Execution (computing)

Execution in computer and software engineering is the process by which a computer or virtual machine interprets and acts on the instructions of a computer program.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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FileHippo

FileHippo is a software downloading website that offers computer software for Windows.

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FlexNet Publisher

FlexNet Publisher (formerly known as FLEXlm) is a software license manager from Flexera Software which implements license management and is intended to be used in corporate environments to provide floating licenses to multiple end users of computer software.

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Free software

Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

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Free Software Foundation

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman on October 4, 1985, to support the free software movement, with the organization's preference for software being distributed under copyleft ("share alike") terms, such as with its own GNU General Public License.

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Free-software license

A free-software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software.

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FreeOTFE

FreeOTFE is a discontinued open source computer program for on-the-fly disk encryption (OTFE). TrueCrypt and FreeOTFE are cryptographic software, disk encryption and Windows security software.

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Freeware

Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user.

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GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code. TrueCrypt and GitHub are Cross-platform software.

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Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Edward Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American journalist, author, and former lawyer.

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GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.

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Google Desktop

Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems.

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Guessing

Guessing is the act of drawing a swift conclusion, called a guess, from data directly at hand, which is then held as probable or tentative, while the person making the guess (the guesser) admittedly lacks material for a greater degree of certainty.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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Hardware keylogger

Hardware keyloggers are used for keystroke logging, a method of capturing and recording computer users' keystrokes, including sensitive passwords.

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Hardware Trojan

A Hardware Trojan (HT) is a malicious modification of the circuitry of an integrated circuit.

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Heathrow Airport

Heathrow Airport, called London Airport until 1966, is the main international airport serving London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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HTTP 301

On the World Wide Web, HTTP 301 is the HTTP response status code for 301 Moved Permanently.

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Indictment

An indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime.

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Information technology

Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage.

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InfoWorld

InfoWorld (IW) is an American information technology media business.

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International Data Group

International Data Group (IDG, Inc.) is a market intelligence and demand generation company focused on the technology industry.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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Itanium

Itanium is a discontinued family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture (formerly called IA-64).

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J. Alex Halderman

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John Doe

John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the United States when the true name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed.

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Keystroke logging

Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording (logging) the keys struck on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that a person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored.

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Lauri Love

Lauri Love (born 14 December 1984, United Kingdom) is a British activist who was previously charged by the United States for his alleged activities with the hacker collective ''Anonymous''.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. TrueCrypt and Linux are Cross-platform software.

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Linux distribution

A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Maeil Business Newspaper

The Maeil Business Newspaper, also simply known as Maekyung (derived from fthe pronunciation of the Korean name) or MK, is a comprehensive daily newspaper published in South Korea, first issued on March 24, 1966.

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Magistrates' court (England and Wales)

In England and Wales, a magistrates' court is a lower court which hears matters relating to summary offences and some triable either-way matters.

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Malware

Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software)Tahir, R. (2018).

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Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) is the law enforcement agency that serves Maricopa County, Arizona, and is the largest sheriff's office in Arizona.

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Master boot record

A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first few blocks of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems and beyond.

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Matthew D. Green

Matthew Daniel Green (born 1976) is an American cryptographer and security technologist.

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Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly known as the Metropolitan Police, which is still its common name, serves as the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and crime prevention within Greater London.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.

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MorphOS

MorphOS is an AmigaOS-like computer operating system (OS).

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Multiple encryption

Multiple encryption is the process of encrypting an already encrypted message one or more times, either using the same or a different algorithm.

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Multiprocessing

Multiprocessing is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system.

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National Crime Agency

The National Crime Agency (NCA) is a national law enforcement agency in the United Kingdom.

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NCC Group

NCC Group is an information assurance firm headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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NewsPim

NewsPim or Newspim is a news and media company founded in April, 2003.

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Non-disclosure agreement

A non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also known as a confidentiality agreement (CA), confidential disclosure agreement (CDA), proprietary information agreement (PIA), or secrecy agreement (SA), is a legal contract or part of a contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to.

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OBS Gyeongin TV

OBS Gyeongin TV is a South Korean free-to-air television station covering Gyeonggi Province, Incheon and Seoul.

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Online piracy

Online piracy or software piracy is the practice of downloading and distributing copyrighted works digitally without permission, such as music or software.

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Open Source Initiative

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the steward of the Open Source Definition, the most widely used standard for open-source software.

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Open-source license

Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared.

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Passphrase

A passphrase is a sequence of words or other text used to control access to a computer system, program or data.

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Paul Le Roux

Paul Calder Le Roux (born 24 December 1972) is a former programmer, former criminal cartel boss, and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

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PBKDF2

In cryptography, PBKDF1 and PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 1 and 2) are key derivation functions with a sliding computational cost, used to reduce vulnerability to brute-force attacks.

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Personal property

Personal property is property that is movable.

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Phoenix New Times

Phoenix New Times is a free digital and print media company based in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Pipeline (computing)

In computing, a pipeline, also known as a data pipeline, is a set of data processing elements connected in series, where the output of one element is the input of the next one.

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Plaintext

In cryptography, plaintext usually means unencrypted information pending input into cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms.

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Plausible deniability

Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to deny knowledge of or responsibility for actions committed by or on behalf of members of their organizational hierarchy.

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Pre-boot authentication

Pre-boot authentication (PBA) or power-on authentication (POA) serves as an extension of the BIOS, UEFI or boot firmware and guarantees a secure, tamper-proof environment external to the operating system as a trusted authentication layer.

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Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, a design flaw, or a configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

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Random-access memory

Random-access memory (RAM) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data and machine code.

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Randomness test

A randomness test (or test for randomness), in data evaluation, is a test used to analyze the distribution of a set of data to see whether it can be described as random (patternless).

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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RIPEMD

RIPEMD (RIPE Message Digest) is a family of cryptographic hash functions developed in 1992 (the original RIPEMD) and 1996 (other variants).

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Rootkit

A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software.

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Salt (cryptography)

In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase.

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Scramdisk

Scramdisk is a free on-the-fly encryption program for Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me. TrueCrypt and Scramdisk are cryptographic software, disk encryption and Windows security software.

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Security hacker

A security hacker is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network.

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Serpent (cipher)

Serpent is a symmetric key block cipher that was a finalist in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) contest, in which it ranked second to Rijndael.

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SHA-2

SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) is a set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and first published in 2001.

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Simon Phipps (programmer)

Simon Phipps is a computer scientist and web and open source advocate.

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Software license

A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software.

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Source code

In computing, source code, or simply code or source, is a plain text computer program written in a programming language.

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Source-available software

Source-available software is software released through a source code distribution model that includes arrangements where the source can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but without necessarily meeting the criteria to be called open-source.

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SourceForge

SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software.

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Steve Gibson (computer programmer)

Steven M. Gibson (born March 26, 1955) is an American software engineer, security researcher, and IT security proponent.

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Techdirt

Techdirt is an American Internet blog that reports on technology's legal challenges and related business and economic policy issues, in context of the digital revolution.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Tom's Hardware

Tom's Hardware is an online publication owned by Future plc and focused on technology.

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Trademark

A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies a product or service from a particular source and distinguishes it from others.

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TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is a discontinued source-available freeware utility used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). TrueCrypt and TrueCrypt are assembly language software, Cross-platform software, cryptographic software, discontinued software, disk encryption, Linux security software, software that uses wxWidgets and Windows security software.

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Trusted Platform Module

Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor, a dedicated microcontroller designed to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys. TrueCrypt and Trusted Platform Module are cryptographic software.

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TV Chosun

TV Chosun (stylized in all caps) is a South Korean pay television network and broadcasting company, owned by the Chosun Ilbo-led consortium.

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Twofish

In cryptography, Twofish is a symmetric key block cipher with a block size of 128 bits and key sizes up to 256 bits.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (in case citations, 11th Cir.) is a federal appellate court over the following U.S. district courts.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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URL redirection

URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, is a World Wide Web technique for making a web page available under more than one URL address.

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Usenet

Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

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Utility software

Utility software is a program specifically designed to help manage and tune system or application software.

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VeraCrypt

VeraCrypt is a free and open-source utility for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt are Cross-platform software, cryptographic software, disk encryption, Linux security software, software that uses wxWidgets and Windows security software.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt

Also known as CipherShed, Realcrypt, Tc-play, Tcplay, TruCrypt, True Crypt, TrueCrypt License.

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TrueCrypt, the Glossary

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