is truecrypt dead?

Juan juan.g71 at gmail.com
Wed May 28 18:33:28 PDT 2014


On Wed, 28 May 2014 19:45:06 -0400
Griffin Boyce <griffin at cryptolab.net> 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. 




> BitLocker's enterprise documentation makes me *incredibly* suspicious
> that it is susceptible to monitoring by third-parties.
> 
>    Even being embarrassed by whatever bugs the second phase audit 
> uncovered wouldn't explain the sudden recommendation. And why not 
> ecryptfs or ~literally anything else~ ?
> 
>    Pardon my tinfoil hat.
> 
> ~Griffin




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