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According to a German researcher, Mattias Schlenker, we are to expect that the reason for TrueCrypt's recent shutdown is not a National Security Letter, but a serious security flaw in how TC container files are created on Windows.
He expects the flaw to become public within a week.
What gives this chap some credibility is that he's one of the developers of "desinfec't", a Knoppix-based live Linux that comes with several virus scanners and is distributed by well-renowned German computer magazine c't (whose mother company/publishing house, Heise, hosts the forum where he made his announcement).
Link to his original German posting: http://www.heise.de/security/news/foren/S-Re-Warum -TrueCrypt-nicht-in-Desinfec-t-enthalten-ist/forum -280432/msg-25289876/read/
See our earlier coverage: TrueCrypt Discontinued, Compromised.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday May 31 2014, @10:38AM
Some correction about Desinfec't: It is not based on Knoppix, but on Ubuntu. The previous, Knoppix-based tool was called Knoppicillin.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.