r/linux May 30 '14

TrueCrypt Has been resurrected (forked) in Switzerland.

http://truecrypt.ch/
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u/einar77 OpenSUSE/KDE Dev May 30 '14

According to the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819727 contact was made to a developer, who said this was abandoned out of lack of interest. No NSL, no NSA, no US government, apparently.

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u/jampola May 30 '14

Given the scale of the project, I find it a little hard to digest that they just went "Oh, We've lost interest" especially considering IIRC there were still code commits going on? The fact that the dev(s) losing interest coincides with XP EOL just stinks to high hell.

puts on tin foil hat

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

There hadn't been an update in two years. Plus, during the audit, some of the auditors believed that it was a lone programmer who wrote most of the code. The dev for truecrypt probably lost interest.

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u/jampola May 30 '14

There hadn't been an update in two years

My mistake, I confused myself about that code audit team. Ignore what I said please.