ED#174 : The Mystery Of TrueCrypt's Disappearance

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  1. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Sometime on the 28th of May, 2014, the anonymous developers of TrueCrypt mysteriously pulled the plug on their popular encryption software. They shut down the TrueCrypt.org website and redirected visitors to a simple page hosted by SourceForge, with a disturbing warning :

    WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

    That warning is then followed by instructions on how users may migrate from TrueCrypt to BitLocker. Right at the end is a link to TrueCrypt 7.2, the first update since TrueCrypt 7.1a was released in 2012. However, this version of TrueCrypt will only decrypt TrueCrypt containers - its encryption ability has been disabled / removed.

    What the heck is going on???

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    Link : ED#174 : The Mystery Of TrueCrypt's Disappearance
     
  2. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    ED#174 : The Mystery Of TrueCrypt's Disappearance Rev. 2.0

    Sometime on the 28th of May, 2014, the anonymous developers of TrueCrypt mysteriously pulled the plug on their popular encryption software. They shut down the TrueCrypt.org website and redirected visitors to a simple page hosted by SourceForge, with a disturbing warning :

    WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

    That warning is then followed by instructions on how users may migrate from TrueCrypt to BitLocker. Right at the end is a link to TrueCrypt 7.2, the first update since TrueCrypt 7.1a was released in 2012. However, this version of TrueCrypt will only decrypt TrueCrypt containers - its encryption ability has been disabled / removed.

    What the heck is going on???

    In this update, we added a new section - "Has TrueCrypt Been Revived?" and corrected the download links. They are all fully functional now.

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    Link : ED#174 : The Mystery Of TrueCrypt's Disappearance Rev. 2.0
     

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