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It's perhaps naive, but could he create a new organisation, like a "TotallyNotVeraCrypt" French loi 1901 association, at a different address, and create a new m
by speedgoose 6mo ago
It's perhaps naive, but could he create a new organisation, like a "TotallyNotVeraCrypt" French loi 1901 association, at a different address, and create a new microsoft account by making sure it passes all the requirements.
- subscribed 6mo agoProbably not French though, give how hostile it appears to be to encryption/security related projects (GrapheneOS had a good arguments re: that)
- kijin 6mo agoThe author is now based in Japan, and even owns a veracrypt.jp domain. Meanwhile, the old veracrypt.fr domain redirects to veracrypt.io. Seems rather clear that he doesn't want French jurisdiction.
- orbital-decay 6mo agoThat's what VeraCrypt is, a fork of the original TrueCrypt after all drama, security doubts, and eventual discontinuation. It took a long time and two independent audits to establish trust in it.
- repelsteeltje 6mo agoYeah but isn't the point of these certificates to express trust? The point isn't (or: shouldn't be) to forcefully find your way through some back alley to make it look legit. It's to certify that the software is legit. Trust goes both ways: we ought to trust Microsoft to act as a responsible CA. Obfuscating why they revoked trust (as is apparently the case) and leaving the phone ringing is hurting trust in MS as a CA and as an organization.
- sidewndr46 6mo agowho on planet earth trusts a piece of software because Microsoft signed it?
- mr_mitm 6mo agoTrust isn't binary, it's a spectrum. A signature is a signal that should increase trustworthiness. Not the strongest signal, perhaps even a weak one, but it's not zero.
- roelschroeven 6mo agoThere are different types of trust, but at the very least with such a signature you can trust that the piece of software is really from Veracrypt and not from a malicious third party.
- repelsteeltje 6mo agoFor one: Most if not all virus scanners. A signature is a signal, not an absolute. Although, to be fair, if Microsoft (or most other CAs) had done a better job, then that trust would have carried more weight than it does currently.
- fg137 6mo agoAnd Microsoft will be happy to shut that one down because their incompetence. So we'd better find a real solution now.