Now that you’re no longer maintaining it, there seems to be a great deal of interest in forking it. I understand and can sympathize with that.įor the past several months we’ve been (very slowly) auditing the TC code. I understand from seeing some previous emails that you were one of the Truecrypt developers, and that you’re no longer interested in continuing work on the project. He had prior contact with the TrueCrypt developers and reached out to them about forking its development with this email: If you read our piece, The Mystery Of TrueCrypt's Disappearance, you would know that one of the principals of the effort to audit TrueCrypt was Matthew Green ( a Cryptography Research Professor at the Johns Hopkins University). TrueCrypt Developer Says Open Source Fork Is "Impossible" The Mystery Of TrueCrypt's Disappearance If you like this article, please share it! -> Even worse - they are now denying the world the right to "fork" TrueCrypt's development. Well, it's been more than 3 weeks since TrueCrypt went down, and one thing's for sure - the website was not hacked, and it was the actual intent of the mysterious developers of TrueCrypt to pull the plug. On the other hand, there were conspiracy theories that the developers were being threatened by the NSA to divulge or add a backdoor, or were the NSA themselves! On one end, many TrueCrypt users were hoping that the website was just hacked and that the world, as they knew it, would return. There has been much speculation about the reasons for pulling the plug. However, this version of TrueCrypt will only decrypt TrueCrypt containers - its encryption ability has been disabled / removed. Right at the end is a link to TrueCrypt 7.2, the first update since TrueCrypt 7.1a was released in 2012. That warning is then followed by instructions on how users may migrate from TrueCrypt to BitLocker. You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt. WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues They shut down the website and redirected visitors to a simple page hosted by SourceForge, with a disturbing warning : Sometime on the 28th of May, 2014, the anonymous developers of TrueCrypt mysteriously pulled the plug on their popular encryption software. If you still can't find the file you need, you can leave a "message" on the webpage.ED#176 : TrueCrypt Developer Drops New Bombshell - Open Source Fork "Impossible".If yes, please check the properties of these files, and you will know if the file you need is 32-bit or 64-bit. If you encounter this situation, check the file path to see whether there are any other files located in. There is a special case that, the operating system is a 64-bit system, but you are not sure whether the program is 32-bit or 64-bit. If your operating system is 32-bit, you must download 32-bit files, because 64-bit programs are unable to run in the 32-bit operating system. (Method: Click your original file, and then click on the right key to select "Properties" from the pop-up menu, you can see the version number of the files) If your original file is just corrupted but not lost, then please check the version number of your files. If you know MD5 value of the required files, it is the best approach to make choice Tip: How to correctly select the file you need
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