is truecrypt dead?

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Wed May 28 21:13:03 PDT 2014



> Message du 29/05/14 01:50
> De : "Griffin Boyce" 
> A : cypherpunks at cpunks.org
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> Objet : Re: is truecrypt dead?
>

> 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. 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
> 

If you are still using proprietary software at this point, you deserve everything bad that will come to you, sorry.




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