FalseCrypt?
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?
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?