Pipe 39Y FalseCrypt?

FalseCrypt?

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Finally, a story for Pipedot's resident conspiracy theorists that has truth behind it, an impact on the world, and may actually mean something.

TrueCrypt, the standout open source multiplatform full-disk-encryption software package, has acted all squirrelly and more or less shut the the project down, blaming it, somewhat hilariously, on the end of Microsoft's Windows XP support.

All this while a paid (and long awaited) audit of TrueCrypt has been nearing completion.

Discussed at lots of places including http://lifehacker.com/truecrypts-web-site-updates-with-ominous-warning-detai-1582879439
and http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/28/2126249/truecrypt-website-says-to-switch-to-bitlocker and http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/29/0243223

This is really troubling for lots of reasons. The audit was deemed necessary because TC's authorship and operation were shrouded in mystery. This doesn't help any in that regard. What happened?

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2014-05-30 10:21
TrueCrypt Project Problems
bryan@pipedot.org
Finally, a story for Pipedot's resident conspiracy theorists that has truth behind it, an impact on the world, and may actually mean something.

TrueCrypt, the standout semi-open source multiplatform full-disk-encryption software package, has acted all squirrelly and more or less shut the the project down, blaming it, somewhat hilariously, on the end of Microsoft's Windows XP support.

All this while a paid (and long awaited) audit of TrueCrypt has been nearing completion.

Discussed at lots of places including http://lifehacker.com/truecrypts-web-site-updates-with-ominous-warning-detai-1582879439
and
, http://it.sSlashdot.org/story/14/05/28/2126249/truecrypt-website-says-to-switch-to-bitlocker and, SoylentNews , and reddit .

This is really troubling for lots of reasons. The audit was deemed necessary because TC's authorship and operation were shrouded in mystery. (the two main developers are anonymous and go by the pseudonyms "ennead" and "syncon") This doesn't help any in that regard. What happened? Loss of control of the domain? Website defacement? Warrant canary?
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Defacement? (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-05-30 01:01 (#1YW)

Ya, I've been waiting on a more official reply from the maintainers. The current homepage on SF really looks like a web-defacement and not something that is official.

To make things worse, the "new release" of the software is signed using the official key. Does that mean that they were able to deface the site and nab the private keys at the same time?