What really happened to TrueCrypt back in 2014? Did anyone ever find out?
It was a widely used encryption tool, that was suddenly dropped with the message " not safe, use something else".
What really happened to TrueCrypt back in 2014? Did anyone ever find out?
It was a widely used encryption tool, that was suddenly dropped with the message " not safe, use something else".
All of these claims are easily able to be checked from the archived version of the site . It was not using home grown encryption algorithm.
The last version released was independently audited and “found no evidence of deliberate backdoors, or any severe design flaws that will make the software insecure in most instances”
I had never heard of the warrant canary for TrueCrypt, and quickly searching for news of the time, was unable to find anything to indicate that there was ever a mention of NSL on the website, so nothing to remove if they were served with a NSL.
If he received a national security letter that had an indication of the government possibly taking over the project and adding in their own back door, that would be a reason to say the software wasn’t safe (from future changes). If there wasn’t follow through then it would pass an audit.
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