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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?
(Score: 3) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 29 2014, @02:56PM
If you can compile it yourself using GCC, either the public official build of GCC is backdoored (in which case we might as well just give up anyway), or the program actually does indeed do what the source code says.
You *do* know how programming works, don't you? The source code is *kind of* related to how the end result behaves.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"