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In an update to the speculation that TrueCrypt development was officially discontinued as a response to efforts by US intelligence agencies to compromise the project, the TrueCrypt web site seems to contain a secret message warning potential users of NSA interference in the integrity of the software. The apparent message, "Don't use TrueCrypt because it is under the control of the NSA" is read as an acrostic in Latin, contained in the message announcing developer cessation of the project on SouceForge. Two independent analytical exercises, conducted independently, arrive at the same conclusion. User "Badon" at the Live Business Chat message board has a detailed exegesis including screenshots and footnotes.
[EDITOR'S NOTE: I have cross checked this on some Latin specific sites, and the consensus seems to be that it is nonsensical from a perspective of proper Latin grammar and syntax. However, Google Translation does reproduce these results. I can certainly believe that a warning might have been composed using G.T. rather than by consulting a classicist. --ED]
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday June 17 2014, @06:53PM
OK, that rules out alien conspiracy. But given that the NSA is known to have corrupted a NIST standard and there is good evidence that they paid RSA a decent chunk of money and RSA then chose a rather unlikely default for a popular crypto library that just happened to encourage use of the corrupted PRNG, the simplest explanation is that they are at it again. Assuming that after years of sanity and allowing a largely complete project coast along the Trucrypt guys suddenly went nutz and threw a hissy fit for no discernable reason is the weaker theory under Occam.