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It’s this last item that is important to remember. In fact, there is apparently a security audit being done right now, only 10 years from its start – proof that too many people just went along with it without questioning.
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Caution alone should have said to treat a program like TrueCrypt carefully with our secrets. It is hard to get everything ‘just right’. Cryptographic security is a really, really, complicated field. See it for what it is, secure, but not absolute. You can continue to get the project via Steve Gibson’s site, and of course the source is included. The fact is, the program is as useful as it every was, and until significant parts of Windows change, should still be usable.
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The software was a way to secure data and gave me warm fuzzies when transferring files (for example on a USB key). If you’re a fan of the disk drive volume encryption software, you may have visited their SourceForge page and seen the new ‘goodbye’ message, complete with detailed instructions about migrating over to Microsoft’s BitLocker security.Īs someone who has used and recommended TrueCrypt over the years, I’m sad to see them go. Latebreaking news (2 weeks in fact – so much for being someone on the bleeding edge of technology).