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by DSingularity 2053 days ago
TrueCrypt Rest In Peace.
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fsflover 2053 days ago
Actually AFAIK it still works fine except privilege escalations (which do not concern users caring about security and using Qubes OS).
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edm0nd 2053 days ago
VeraCrypt is what most moved to iirc.

I still actually wonder what actually happened to TrueCrypt. Did a dev get threatened with a NSA or FBI NSL? Did they get asked to implant a bug so they shut it down instead? So many questions.

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RcouF1uZ4gsC 2053 days ago
Conspiracy theory me says it was the NSA. From their home page warning.

> WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues.

The phrase “not secure as” is interesting as the first letter spell out NSA.

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jlgaddis 2053 days ago
Also, the first letters of "unfixed security" are "U.S." which could be another hint.

Plus, "Using TrueCrypt" -- "UTC". According to Wikipedia, UTC is "a successor to Greenwich Mean Time" -- Greenwich, London, England. GCHQ is in England! So, obviously, it was a partnership between NSA and GCHQ!

Surely we can come up with even more irrefutable evidence^W^Woutrageous theories if we devote a few minutes to it.

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