[mdlug] Life after TrueCrypt?

[Gregory Czerniak]

I agree.  Even if you believe in one of the conspiracy theories for
why TrueCrypt was discontinued (such as a powerful organization
threatening the developers), using TrueCrypt is probably fine unless
your threat model seriously includes organizations with the resources
to find weaknesses in TrueCrypt's implementation.  If that were the
case, cross-platform support in your drive encryption would be the
least of your worries.

To keep your thumbdrive or hard drive safe against common thieves,
TrueCrypt is probably still fine.

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-08-16 at 18:03 -0400, Gmail-otakurider wrote:
>> Here is a site that still has the (7.1a ver) versions of truecrypt, also
>> it has a write up on what happened and why.
>> https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
>
> Yep; the meat of it being: "So it appears that the unexpected (putting
> it mildly) disappearance of TrueCrypt.org and the startling disavowal of
> TrueCrypt's bullet proof security will turn out to be a brief
> disturbance in the force. We should know much more about a trustworthy
> TrueCrypt in the late summer of 2014."
>
> It is just weird how this was all handled, but remember the full-on
> gasping panic when other forks have happened?  Like XFree/X.Org.  And
> the world went on about its merry way and everything continued to
> work.
>
> Gasping panic and falling-skies crisis does makes great tweeter fodder.
>
> It is doubly odd that security "experts" would conduct things this way.
> Oh well... humans be crazy.  If it works for you - just keep using it.
>
>
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