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Re: TrueCrypt killed off

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Sad news, I've followed TrueCrypt since it was E4M, although I prefer  
FreeOTFE on windows and the built in system on Linux.

reddit [1]has some paranoid speculation that the devs received a NSL to put  
in a back door (or not remove one) and this is their only way out without  
betraying their users.

However Matthew Green, one of the code auditors, has tweeted [2]that he has  
heard from one of the devs 'David'

>�
>
>[killed because] There is no longer interest
>
>...
>
>He said Bitlocker is "good enough" and Windows was original "goal of the  
>project".
>
>...
>
>[David] "personally" feels that [a] fork is harmful. "The source is still  
>available as a reference though"
>
>..
>
>I asked and it was clear from the reply that "he" believes that [a fork] is  
>harmful because only they are really familiar w/code.
>
>..
>
>"I were happy with the audit, it didn't spark anything. We worked hard on  
>this for 10 years, nothing lasts forever."
�

Bear in mind the current maintainers of the code are not the original author  
(Paul Le Roux), and both windows device drivers and security software are  
hard to write.

So it looks like, as others have said, the devs just didn't feel up to  
porting it to later versions of Windows.

There are also comments by Bruce Schneier [3], and a summary of events here  
[4].


[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_development_has_ended_052814/
[2] https://twitter.com/stevebarnhart/status/472200478345150464
[3] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/truecrypt_wtf.html
[4] http://www.etcwiki.org/wiki/What_happened_to_Truecrypt_-_May_2014
-- 
regards
~tdk
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