Amazon AWS continues to use TrueCrypt despite project's demise

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"Importing and exporting data from Amazon Simple Storage Service still requires TrueCrypt, two weeks after the encryption software was discontinued"

"Amazon.com did not immediately respond to an inquiry seeking information on whether it plans to support other data encryption technologies for the AWS import/export feature aside from TrueCrypt in the future"

http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/amazon-aws-continues-use-truecrypt-despite-projects-demise-244151

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSImportExport/latest/DG/encrypting-using-truecrypt.html

http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/faqs/#Security

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2014-06-16 09:55
Amazon AWS continues to use TrueCrypt despite project's demise
zafiro17@pipedot.org
"ImpBad news forting any users who have settled exporting data from Amazon Simple Storage Service still requires TrueCrypt, two weeks after the encryption software was discontinued"

"Amazon.com did not immediately respond to an inquiry seeking information on whether it plans to support other data encryption technologies for the AWS import/export feature asvide from: TrueCrypt in the future"

http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-coImpuorting/ and exporting data from Amazon- Simple Storage Service still requires TrueCrypt, two weeks- after the Truecrypt encryption software was discontinues-use-truecrypt-despite-projects-demise-244151 .

What to do now? Well, no word from Amazon, anyway, who did not immediately respond to an inquiry seeking information on whether it plans to support other data encryption technologies for the AWS import/export feature aside from TrueCrypt in the future.

Curious how it works currently? Here are Amazon's docs on using Truecrypt with ASSS export and import . And here are com/importexport/faqs/#Security">http://aws.aAmazon.com/importexport/faq's/#S security FAQs.
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