Phase 2 of the TrueCrypt Audit FINISHED! No significant cryptographic problems foundAnd see why the TrueCrypt spinoffs are violations of the TrueCrypt license. |
No. 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 . . . much like Windows XP after May of 2014. In other words, we're on our own. But 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. So, thanks guys . . . we'll take it from here. |
Note that once TrueCrypt has been independently audited it will be the only mass storage encryption solution to have been audited. This will likely cement TrueCrypt's position as the top, cross-platform, mass storage encryption tool. |
And then the TrueCrypt developers were heard from . . . Steven Barnhart (@stevebarnhart) 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 (@stevebarnhart) and Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green):
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TrueCrypt v7.1a installation packages: | Downloads | |
• TrueCrypt Setup 7.1a.exe (32/64-bit Windows) | 462,315 | |
• TrueCrypt 7.1a Mac OS X.dmg | 101,078 | |
• truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x64.tar.gz | 108,968 | |
• truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x86.tar.gz | 58,705 | |
• truecrypt-7.1a-linux-console-x64.tar.gz | 45,020 | |
• truecrypt-7.1a-linux-console-x86.tar.gz | 33,569 | |
The TrueCrypt User's Guide for v7.1a: | ||
• TrueCrypt User Guide.pdf | 243,883 | |
The TrueCrypt v7.1a source code as a gzipped TAR and a ZIP: | ||
• TrueCrypt 7.1a Source.tar.gz | 35,039 | |
• TrueCrypt 7.1a Source.zip | 41,549 |