[ciphershed] Re: Reviewed commit e8529e95d89d3f519a31ef7de5bd7f0d0d318e8c

  • From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 06:44:04 -0400

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On 7/3/2014 5:21 AM, Rocki Hack wrote:
> The point is that if you migrate from truecrypt to ciphershed with
> windows system encryption enabled you must run the setup provided
> by ciphershed just on top of truecrypt.
> 
> The setup makes use of the code base and I think with rebranding it
> will fail to detect that truecrypt is installed and/or can't read
> truecrypt's settings. I think the best solution is to document all
> changes very carefully and also note how they affect truecrypt /
> ciphershed. Then adjust the setup to properly migrate from
> truecrypt.

I agree.  We really need to understand how these strings are used.
Constants that are effectively part of the volume format should not be
changed, and those that are simply used for registry entry names
probably should be migrated, or we should look for both.

> This is a first draft of functions / constants we need to look at
> very carefully.

Thanks for tracking these down.

Bill
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