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Truecrypt dead or compromised.

Started by Nick, May 29, 2014, 10:58 AM

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Nick

Something strange this way comes.

http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/26pxol/truecrypt_is_dead/
Link at top to the SourceForge page.

A rather fishy ending to one of the most well-respected open-source cryptography programs available. Theories range from their account getting compromised to an NSA crack down. Currently there is no word on what really happened, other then a page telling people to use Microsofts "Bitlocker" (not considered very secure).

This is a scary event. I use truecrypt. Thousands of businesses use it. I would not be surprised that many government agencies use it. No word on the security of using old versions of TC. I will keep using it until more information is available. But I thought you should all be aware.

This would be a good time to get SSL keys/certs generated and working for randomland. Then we can encrypt all site traffic.