is truecrypt dead?

Cari Machet carimachet at gmail.com
Wed May 28 19:00:10 PDT 2014


looks a little too russian in the last entry to pass as true

http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xE3BA73CAF0D6B1E0




On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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