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Truecrypt is down
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Recent development in the open source security world, Truecrypt has been "taken off the line".
Development is said to have stopped with thh expiration of Windows XP and users are recommended to download version 7.2 of the program. This comes with quite a distressing change in tone on the now quite barren website page, as well as a distressing impression creeping up on the tech world.
Why? Because all previous versions and sources have been removed, and that it is now recommended to migrate to BitLocker, an MS product.Because of very clear discrepancies in the new source code. And because of the for unconfimed capbilities of the new version, which aparantly can only decrypt data and not create new TrueCrypt volumes.
Interesting, to say the least.
Article from Ars Technica here, please check other sources reddit and forums for more, I've seen seven or eight more sites that have made a flash news article of it.
Recommendations are to keep current version and wait for light to be shed on this suspicious take down.
Gubi out.
Development is said to have stopped with thh expiration of Windows XP and users are recommended to download version 7.2 of the program. This comes with quite a distressing change in tone on the now quite barren website page, as well as a distressing impression creeping up on the tech world.
Why? Because all previous versions and sources have been removed, and that it is now recommended to migrate to BitLocker, an MS product.Because of very clear discrepancies in the new source code. And because of the for unconfimed capbilities of the new version, which aparantly can only decrypt data and not create new TrueCrypt volumes.
Interesting, to say the least.
Article from Ars Technica here, please check other sources reddit and forums for more, I've seen seven or eight more sites that have made a flash news article of it.
Recommendations are to keep current version and wait for light to be shed on this suspicious take down.
Gubi out.
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problem though is bitlocker is only on win pro and ultimate isn't it? I wouldn't mind having some more open source alternatives to move to however.
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Rovencrone wrote...
problem though is bitlocker is only on win pro and ultimate isn't it? I wouldn't mind having some more open source alternatives to move to however.Well there is axcrypt which is basically a Truecrypt clone. Its opensource and free.
But its hasn't been audited to my knowledge.
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damn.
iv been using TrueCrypt for ages now, saad to see it go.
wouldn't trust nothing that comes out of MS, encryption better be open source so there is no nasty back doors.
iv been using TrueCrypt for ages now, saad to see it go.
wouldn't trust nothing that comes out of MS, encryption better be open source so there is no nasty back doors.
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Flaser
OCD Hentai Collector
Frankly it's not clear why the Truecrypt team released the announcement they did:
http://boingboing.net/2014/05/29/mysterious-announcement-from-t.html
I have a feeling it has more to do with possible pressure from the NSA or some other legal shenanigans than any actual shortcoming of the code itself.
Frankly I wouldn't move to Bitlocker as MS has a history of building back doors for ABC organizations into their software.
Boing Boing wrote...
The response to the Truecrypt news is mostly frank bafflement. The software is licensed under an obscure "open source" license that makes it unclear whether third parties can support the now (apparently) orphaned codebase.http://boingboing.net/2014/05/29/mysterious-announcement-from-t.html
I have a feeling it has more to do with possible pressure from the NSA or some other legal shenanigans than any actual shortcoming of the code itself.
Frankly I wouldn't move to Bitlocker as MS has a history of building back doors for ABC organizations into their software.
