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TrueCrypt is Now Abandonware?!
Mark0:
That's really a bizarre situation! :o
Renegade:
^I think it's less it's being seen as terrifying and more as a nasty and serious problem that needs to be solved. And pronto. At least on the part of the people with sufficient mathematical and technical chops to pull it off.
Unfortunately, finding that new encryption algorithm may prove trickier than originally thought. Look here.
-40hz (May 29, 2014, 12:45 PM)
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And what if Glenn Greenwald's partner had TrueCrypt info when he was intercepted in London?
In that case, this is all just theatre, and we're being played like a fiddle. What then? What agenda?
These are terrifying thoughts.
rgdot:
Wait a second - yes I am slow - the warning also exists when you run the setup of the version on the sourceforge page? I just checked ghacks (http://www.ghacks.net/2014/05/29/list-truecrypt-encryption-alternatives/) and saw
That's a different level of WTF as far as I am concerned :huh:
40hz:
^Now that is a true WTF???? if I ever saw one.
Did Microsoft just buy these guys out or what? :huh:
40hz:
Looks like whatever happened, TrueCrypt really is gone - as in 'game over.'
From the folks at LinuxBSDos.com comes this. (Emphasis added.)
Is TrueCrypt dead?
in news & announcements / on May 29, 2014 at 5:29 am /
Based on the wording of its license, there was always a question mark surrounding the open source-ness of Truecrypt. But that’s not the topic of this brief article. What prompted me to write this is an article that appeared in the Washington Post suggesting that TrueCrypt may have seen its last days as an (“open source”) software project.
TrueCrypt was a cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows) disk encryption software. The last article I wrote about it on this website was Should Truecrypt be audited?.
A quick trip to the project’s website, or what used to be the project’s website, confirmed the gist of the Washington Post article. If you try to visit http://truecrypt, you’ll actually be redirected to http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net. And the only conclusion that I can draw by looking at the contents of the website is that TrueCrypt is dead. Microsoft Windows users are encouraged to migrate to BitLocker, that operating system’s disk encryption utility, while Linux users are encouraged to “use any integrated support for encryption.” The latest download links are only for users “migrating data encrypted by TrueCrypt.” That really seals it. You cannot encrypt a disk using the latest version of TrueCrypt, only decrypt.
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"Curiouser and curiouser," said Alice.
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