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

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?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by forsythe on Thursday May 29 2014, @01:59PM

    by forsythe (831) on Thursday May 29 2014, @01:59PM (#48735)

    I was actually going to mention the U.S. -> United States thing, but thought I would come off as being overly silly.

    So here's something else: Towards the beginning of the diff, some options of a dialog box got changed (that didn't seem obviously related to the neutering), and the option to choose `No' was removed.

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  • (Score: 1) by eieken on Thursday May 29 2014, @04:03PM

    by eieken (4322) on Thursday May 29 2014, @04:03PM (#48806)

    Secretly communicating what happened via the No seems like something to do, bothersome that I really liked TrueCrypt. :(