TrueCrypt development ended - now insecure?

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Quote from: dooglus on June 02, 2014, 09:26:18 PM

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A user on reddit has an interesting interpretation of the truecrypt announcement:

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Read between the lines? "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is (n)ot (s)ecure (a)s it may contain unfixed security issues,"
"TrueCrypt is nsa it may contain unfixed security issues".

Oh wow! I hadn't noticed that!

I'm all for some of these great theories, but on the other hand, humans excel at seeing patterns where there are none. If randoms on the internet can take the first letters of three words in a sentence and make NSA out of it - then so can the NSA - and any legal binding they had to non disclosure would be forfeit right?

If the developers are somewhat anonymous - do we even know they're from the USA? It would seem a no-brainer to host software like this on some Scandinavian / Caribbean data-haven server right?

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Quote from: ?? on ??

A user on reddit has an interesting interpretation of the truecrypt announcement:

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Read between the lines? "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is (n)ot (s)ecure (a)s it may contain unfixed security issues,"
"TrueCrypt is nsa it may contain unfixed security issues".

Oh wow! I hadn't noticed that!

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A difference which makes a difference

Quote from: BCwinning on June 02, 2014, 06:25:32 PM

Quote from: Equality 7-2521 on June 02, 2014, 06:18:48 PM

Quote from: BCwinning on June 02, 2014, 05:51:53 PM

Quote from: Equality 7-2521 on June 02, 2014, 05:47:49 PM

And we're back - http://truecrypt.ch/

back to scamming? don't trust this url folks..

Excuse us? What are you talking about? The URL we posted is a link to a project to revive Truecrypt which we read about here earlier - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jameslyne/2014/06/02/truecrypt-is-back-but-should-it-be/

yea 3 posts and truecrypt is hosted on sourceforge. The whole new domain .ch ain't buying it..

This is our last post directly to you. Our post count is irrelevant. Feel free to follow the Forbes link. This is a new team of devs attempting to revive Truecrypt or a new product inspired by Truecrypt so why would it matter what the domain is? There is more to the internet than .com and .org.

Thank you.

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Quote from: Equality 7-2521 on June 02, 2014, 06:18:48 PM

Quote from: BCwinning on June 02, 2014, 05:51:53 PM

Quote from: Equality 7-2521 on June 02, 2014, 05:47:49 PM

And we're back - http://truecrypt.ch/

back to scamming? don't trust this url folks..

Excuse us? What are you talking about? The URL we posted is a link to a project to revive Truecrypt which we read about here earlier - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jameslyne/2014/06/02/truecrypt-is-back-but-should-it-be/

yea 3 posts and truecrypt is hosted on sourceforge. The whole new domain .ch ain't buying it..

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Quote from: BCwinning on June 02, 2014, 05:51:53 PM

Quote from: Equality 7-2521 on June 02, 2014, 05:47:49 PM

And we're back - http://truecrypt.ch/

back to scamming? don't trust this url folks..

Excuse us? What are you talking about? The URL we posted is a link to a project to revive Truecrypt which we read about here earlier - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jameslyne/2014/06/02/truecrypt-is-back-but-should-it-be/

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Quote from: Equality 7-2521 on June 02, 2014, 05:47:49 PM

And we're back - http://truecrypt.ch/

back to scamming? don't trust this url folks..

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And we're back - http://truecrypt.ch/

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Quote from: dooglus on June 02, 2014, 02:17:59 AM

Quote from: Parazyd on June 01, 2014, 11:54:56 PM

7.1 is still on all of my boxes. Has anyone audited the source?

http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

wow, there really is a domain for everything these days.

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Quote from: Este Nuno on June 02, 2014, 01:03:56 PM

Quote from: BCwinning on June 02, 2014, 12:48:29 PM

Quote from: Este Nuno on June 02, 2014, 09:10:01 AM

The whole 'go use bitlocker' thing is blowing my mind. How could they possibly say that?

I'm on 7.1a but I'm not too happy right now. Honestly I don't have anything really worth protecting since I don't keep btc on it, but still.

I'm not a paranoid person but after seeing that message my imagination starts going off.

Has there been any other unofficial messages from the TC people? The lack of explanation really makes me even more suspicious...like they can't legally talk about or something.

If they have been served a NSL they can't talk about it at all. Not even hint really.

Would the government consider what they said a hint though? Legally speaking?

Sure but they have to be able to prove it as well which probably isn't worth that effort alone.
We can't even prove what we "think" it might be. It might be what it is at face value..
The lack of any further information though could be a good indicator they are not at liberty to discuss anything.
I'm taking it as they have been compromised. I'm keeping my old copy and I read it's been forked already.

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Quote from: BCwinning on June 02, 2014, 12:48:29 PM

Quote from: Este Nuno on June 02, 2014, 09:10:01 AM

The whole 'go use bitlocker' thing is blowing my mind. How could they possibly say that?

I'm on 7.1a but I'm not too happy right now. Honestly I don't have anything really worth protecting since I don't keep btc on it, but still.

I'm not a paranoid person but after seeing that message my imagination starts going off.

Has there been any other unofficial messages from the TC people? The lack of explanation really makes me even more suspicious...like they can't legally talk about or something.

If they have been served a NSL they can't talk about it at all. Not even hint really.

Would the government consider what they said a hint though? Legally speaking?

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Quote from: Este Nuno on June 02, 2014, 09:10:01 AM

The whole 'go use bitlocker' thing is blowing my mind. How could they possibly say that?

I'm on 7.1a but I'm not too happy right now. Honestly I don't have anything really worth protecting since I don't keep btc on it, but still.

I'm not a paranoid person but after seeing that message my imagination starts going off.

Has there been any other unofficial messages from the TC people? The lack of explanation really makes me even more suspicious...like they can't legally talk about or something.

If they have been served a NSL they can't talk about it at all. Not even hint really.

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amarha

The whole 'go use bitlocker' thing is blowing my mind. How could they possibly say that?

I'm on 7.1a but I'm not too happy right now. Honestly I don't have anything really worth protecting since I don't keep btc on it, but still.

I'm not a paranoid person but after seeing that message my imagination starts going off.

Has there been any other unofficial messages from the TC people? The lack of explanation really makes me even more suspicious...like they can't legally talk about or something.

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I think I'll continue using v7.1. I don't see why I shouldn't.

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See https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm too.

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Yeah Tomb seems nice. The entire dyne thing is pretty awesome.

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I was a couple of days late after the TrueCrypt announcement posting this to bitcointalk to begin with, and somewhat surprised no one had posted it before. I guess everyone uses paper wallets/cold storage or whatever, and not that many keep their own encrypted volumes anymore.

I'll be keeping an eye on the audit of 7.1 results, as I kind of liked TrueCrypt. But Tomb seems pretty good too looking at it now...

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Quote from: Parazyd on June 01, 2014, 11:54:56 PM

7.1 is still on all of my boxes. Has anyone audited the source?

http://istruecryptauditedyet.com/

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Quote from: Parazyd on June 01, 2014, 11:54:56 PM

7.1 is still on all of my boxes. Has anyone audited the source?

it was being audited and the results are to be released soon from my understanding.
Nothing major was found. I might have read it wrong too. always check these things for yourself.

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7.1 is still on all of my boxes. Has anyone audited the source?

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Quote from: b!z on June 01, 2014, 11:11:21 PM

Do you think they chose to shut down for the same reason LavaBit did?

That would be my guess.

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