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TrueCrypt Discontinued, Compromised?

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday May 29 2014, @04:03AM   
from the Another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

J053 writes:

The TrueCrypt website has been changed it now has a big red warning stating "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues". They recommend using BitLocker for Windows 7/8, FileVault for OS X, or (whatever) for Linux. So, what happened? The TrueCrypt site says:

This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt. The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.

Did the TrueCrypt devs (or SourceForge?) get a NSL? They are offering a "new" version (7.2), but apparently the signing key has changed and a source code diff seems to indicate a lot of the functionality has been stripped out. What's up?

• Re:Now the importance of the license becomes appar (Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday May 29 2014, @10:07AM

  by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday May 29 2014, @10:07AM (#48652) Journal

  Given that to sue you for copyright infringement, the anonymous authors would have to reveal their identity, and furthermore would have to find out your identity, I guess another anonymous group taking over TrueCrypt development would be fairly secure against such lawsuits.

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  The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.

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