![]() We worked hard on this for 10 years, nothing lasts forever.” Steven Barnhart wrote to an eMail address he had used before and received several replies from “David.” The following snippets were taken from a twitter conversation which then took place between Steven Barnhart and Matthew Green TrueCrypt Developer “David”: “We were happy with the audit, it didn't spark anything. ![]() This will likely cement TrueCrypt's positionĪs the top, cross-platform, mass storage encryption tool.Īnd then the TrueCrypt developers were heard from. It will be the only mass storage encryption solution to haveīeen audited. Note that once TrueCrypt has been independently audited In other words, we're on our own.īut that's okay, since we now know that TrueCrypt is regarded as important enough (see tweets above from the Open Crypto Audit and Linux Foundation projects) to be kept alive by the Internet community as a whole. The TrueCrypt development team's deliberately alarming and unexpected “goodbye and you'd better stop using TrueCrypt” posting stating that TrueCrypt is suddenly insecure (for no stated reason) appears only to mean that if any problems were to be subsequently found, they would no longer be fixed by the original TrueCrypt developer team. We should know much more about a trustworthy TrueCrypt in the late summer of 2014. ![]() ![]() So it appears that the unexpected (putting it mildly) disappearance of and the startling disavowal of TrueCrypt's bullet proof security will turn out to be a brief disturbance in the force.
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