Re: is truecrypt dead?

On Wed, May 28, 2014, at 03:27 PM, Bernard Tyers wrote:

There is a thread on the twitters at the moment about this:

https://twitter.com/runasand/status/471740622031032320

- The the signature of the .exe still verifies. - The key seems to be legit: https://www.google.nl/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=gUaGU_fmJ8eyOsvogYgF#q=c5f4+bac4+a7b2+2db8+b8f8+5538+e3ba+73ca+f0d6+F0D6+B1E0

Truecrypt was cross-platform. BitLocker isn't. LUKS isn't. Whatever MacOS X uses isn't. Until and unless there are GPL/BSD licensed versions of BitLocker for MacOS X, GNU/Linux, etc then they aren't true replacements for Truecrypt. -- Shawn K. Quinn skquinn@rushpost.com