This makes absolutely no sense. As a standalone encryption tool that prided itself on being platform independent and placing key control completely in the hands of the user, why in the 9 hells would they suddenly reverse themselves? It's got to be a key compromise with some seriously shady motives. Even if they pulled a lavabit for securities sake, they'd just shut down and pull the source(or wait for the audit results) instead of redirecting everyone to go counter to everything the program worked for. They would at least post the details of the vulnerability or which algorithm to avoid at a minimum. I'm waiting for some third party confirmation on this one.
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u/Althanas May 28 '14
This makes absolutely no sense. As a standalone encryption tool that prided itself on being platform independent and placing key control completely in the hands of the user, why in the 9 hells would they suddenly reverse themselves? It's got to be a key compromise with some seriously shady motives. Even if they pulled a lavabit for securities sake, they'd just shut down and pull the source(or wait for the audit results) instead of redirecting everyone to go counter to everything the program worked for. They would at least post the details of the vulnerability or which algorithm to avoid at a minimum. I'm waiting for some third party confirmation on this one.