Truecrypt site hacked?

Ryan Rix ry at n.rix.si
Thu May 29 01:27:40 MST 2014


Their license is a murky mess that could get you sued, that's the main
reason: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/distributions/2008-October/000276.html

Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> writes:
> If this turns out to be for real, is there anything (Other than
> government thugs) to prevent someone else from continuing with
> Truecrypt? 
>
> On 05/28/2014 09:46 PM, Eric Cope wrote:
>
>     
>     I found a github repo with 7.2 and 7.1a source code... you may
>     want to fork and clone...
>     
>     https://github.com/warewolf/truecrypt
>     
>     
>     Eric
>     
>     
>     
>     
>     On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:38 PM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com>
>     wrote:
>     
>     Am 28. Mai, 2014 schwätzte Derek Trotter so:
>         
>         moin moin,
>         
>         looks like TrueCrypt has problems.
>         
>         Haven't looked at Tahoe-LAFS in a while. Significant
>         improvements since I
>         last looked.
>         
>         https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
>         
>         There's also encfs, LUKS ( cryptsetup ) and eCryptFS. Collect
>         them all :).
>         
>         ciao,
>         
>         der.hans
>         
>                 Today I read at The Register that the truecrypt site
>             redirects to their sourceforge page, and that has a
>             statement saying development has been discontinued. I
>             checked and saw for myself.
>             
>             I'm wondering if this is for real or if the truecrypt
>             people have been hacked.
>             
>             http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/28/truecrypt_hack/
>             
>             If this is for real, are there any alternatives?
>             
>             
>
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