Does anyone remember seeing this? I really want to know if there was an update to his case. I thought I saw it on HN but I can NOT for the life of me find it now anywhere. Normally I’m not one to buy into “XYZ scrubbed QWERTY from the internet”, but I absolutely can not find this story ANYWHERE now and it seems like it should be easily found with keywords.
If anyone interested has a Twitter account, would you mind searching there for Truecrypt and Veracrypt to see what comes up? That’s the one place I haven’t looked because I don’t have an account.
I suspect you are remembering this event from April, but it was actually related to Linux LUKS encryption: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66429.html .
That said, even with an older key derivation scheme, it seems unlikely they did a full brute force. Guessing they had some unreleased info that helped them open it.