Daniel Dantas’s TrueCrypt-protected disks

Daniel Dantas is a Brazilian banker who came under investigation for alleged financial crimes in 2008. In July of that year, authorities seized several hard drives encrypted with the crypto software TrueCrypt.

The Brazilian National Institute of Criminology spent five months attempting to access the data without success before seeking assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Despite conducting dictionary attacks on the drives for over a year, the FBI was unable to decrypt their contents.

Dantas was ultimately convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison.

Literature

Finextra article
Daniel Dantas’s Wikipedia entry

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