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I use VeraCrypt and none of this are of my concern in my daily use of it. Can anyone tell me if my containers are still safe from prying eyes since I upload the
by unnouinceput 7y ago
I use VeraCrypt and none of this are of my concern in my daily use of it. Can anyone tell me if my containers are still safe from prying eyes since I upload them to cloud? I need specific answers from anyone working on VeraCrypt, not general answers of "yeah, they are unsafe" that usually HN does.
- ficklepickle 7y agoBurn everything and flee to the woods. Can't be too careful.
- Zenbit_UX 7y agoSince you're uploading them to the cloud do keep in mind that given 60 years of computer advancement, today's encryption standards will be unlikely to withstand tomorrow's hardware...
- unnouinceput 7y agoYou're generous. I'd give them no more then 10. Which is all I need in the first place. But I am worried about them this or next year, after that if they get decrypted would just be mildly annoying.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y agoCounterpoint: DES was broken because of the short key length, something that had been criticized very early on. Asymmetric crypto will likely fall soon; symmetric crypto with conservative key length choices, e.g. AES-256, may stand for a long time (including the age of quantum computers).