Windows’ BitLocker and OS X’s FileVault 2, respectively more about the latter later) due to paranoia about whether these major U.S.-based corporations may be beholden to-or compromised by-the government or intelligence agencies such as the NSA. Some still prefer it over Microsoft and Apple’s built-in full-disk encryption alternatives (e.g. One subset of those people includes the die-hard believers in TrueCrypt who continue to view it as the best software of its kind, in spite of public concerns about its security. It is extremely unlikely that there will ever be another official version of the software under the trademarked TrueCrypt name (and if one should ever surface, it would be viewed with such intense skepticism after last year’s brouhaha that very few people would likely use it).īut some people view TrueCrypt’s demise more positively: “TrueCrypt is dead long live TrueCrypt.” Long live TrueCrypt? The short answer is that, yes, TrueCrypt itself is dead in the sense that it’s not being developed anymore by its original creators. What’s the point of auditing software that’s no longer being developed? Is TrueCrypt really dead? It might surprise readers, then, to see recent headlines about the second phase of TrueCrypt’s security audit having been completed.
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Security & Privacy + Security News TrueCrypt Has Been Audited! Should You Use It?Ĭlose to a year ago, I wrote an article entitled “ TrueCrypt is Dead What Does This Mean for Mac Users?” after the developers of the source-available * disk encryption software abruptly terminated the project.
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