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Life after TrueCrypt

  • June 12, 2014
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by Sophos on June 5-9, 2014
 
Summary/ While speculation continues around the fate of popular disk encryption software TrueCrypt, Sophos conducted a survey of over 100 IT professionals regarding their use of encryption. including TrueCrypt.
 
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    Jasper_The_Rasper
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    TrueCrypt developer withholds permission, suggests "starting from scratch."
    by Dan Goodin - June 19 2014
     
     
    When the developer was asked if the source code could be reused in an independent version of the program he responded by saying:

     
    "I am sorry, but I think what you're asking for here is impossible. I don't feel that forking truecrypt would be a good idea, a complete rewrite was something we wanted to do for a while. I believe that starting from scratch wouldn't require much more work than actually learning and understanding all of truecrypt's current codebase.
    I have no problem with the source code being used as reference."
     

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    • Baldrick
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    • June 19, 2014
    What a wise person...knowing when enough is enough and it is time to turn a new leaf...if more software developers took that approach I suspect that we would not require as powerful machines as one sometimes needs.
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    • June 20, 2014
    I've moved on to BitLocker.
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