[kwlug-disc] Truecrypt

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Many theories floating around ...

With secret court orders no one can be sure of anything ...

But there are other possibilities.

See the comments here (change to threshold 3 or 4 to limit to the highest
rated ones)

http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/29/0243223


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Chris Irwin <chris at chrisirwin.ca> wrote:

> I wanted to see what everybody's thoughts are about the truecrypt
> "annoucement" yesterday.
>
> Quoted from their website:
>
> > WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed
> security issues
> >
> > This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by
> TrueCrypt.
> >
> > The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft
> terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer
> integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such
> integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for
> more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to
> encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.
>
> There is discussion on slashdot, hacker news, and many other sites. So
> far, there is no consensus on what is going on? Half-hearted compliance
> with a US NSL? Dead-man switch prematurely activating?
>
> Does anybody else have thoughts or insights?
>
> I'm a dmcrypt user personally, but I know several folks on the list use
> truecrypt.
>
> --
> Chris Irwin
> <chris at chrisirwin.ca>
>
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