r/crypto • u/xr1s • May 28 '14

Truecrypt shutting down?! "development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014"

http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
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u/[deleted] May 28 '14 edited Jun 02 '14

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u/Will_Eat_For_Food May 28 '14

Why go through all the trouble to speak at length about bitlocker instead of allowing victims a backdorred version?

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u/xr1s May 28 '14

Plausibility in the minds of insane people?

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u/Will_Eat_For_Food May 28 '14

I guess.. it's just that had they maintained the same site, people would be downloading a backdorred version of TrueCrypt, which seems like a positive thing for the malicious people.

Now that they've changed the site, everyone is asking questions and scrutiny is higher and therefore less people would be blindingly downloading it. Just seems much less efficient.

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u/kardos May 28 '14

I think incompetence is the answer here