Amazon AWS continues to use TrueCrypt despite project's demise
Bad news for any users who have settled on Amazon Simple Storage Service as a provider: Importing and exporting data from Amazon Simple Storage Service still requires TrueCrypt, two weeks after the Truecrypt encryption software was discontinued .
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 Amazon's security FAQs.
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 Amazon's security FAQs.