is truecrypt dead?

tpb-crypto at laposte.net tpb-crypto at laposte.net
Wed May 28 21:16:04 PDT 2014



> Message du 29/05/14 03:35
> De : "Juan" 
> A : cypherpunks at cpunks.org
> Copie à : 
> Objet : Re: is truecrypt dead?
>

> On Wed, 28 May 2014 19:45:06 -0400
> Griffin Boyce  wrote:
> 
> > My suspicion is that either they were hacked (and had their key 
> > stolen), or that they were ordered to shutdown and recommend
> > Microsoft's (presumably backdoored) BitLocker as a replacement.
> 
> 
> truecrypt.org redirects to this 
> http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Pretty crazy. Whoever the developers may be, after spending a
> good deal of effort on their project, now are licking MS'
> boots? It doesn't make sense. 
> 

Haven't you thought about maybe, just maybe, someone that doesn't like truecrypt because it got in the way of their investigations too many times, put the effort to hack sourceforge to then hijack truecrypt and other "undesirable" projects?




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