is truecrypt dead?

[taxakis]

For those with imminent interest:
http://rpmfusion.org/Package/realcrypt

cheers

>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: cypherpunks [mailto:cypherpunks-bounces at cpunks.org] On Behalf Of
>     Peter Gutmann
>     Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 12:25 PM
>     To: adi at hexapodia.org; griffin at cryptolab.net
>     Cc: cypherpunks at cpunks.org
>     Subject: Re: is truecrypt dead?
>     
>     Griffin Boyce <griffin at cryptolab.net> writes:
>     
>     >Why is it that these things that thousands of people rely on are not
>     >audited in any real way?
>     
>     It's open-source, so there's the presumption of audit, "I couldn't be
>     bothered looking at it, but since it's open source someone else must
>     have".  The odd thing is that it's some of the commercial vendors, who
>     are doing it for money and can pay to have the code checked, for which
>     you have at least some presumption of audit, but since they're closed-
>     source you're not allowed to trust them.
>     
>     Peter.