Drashna Jaelre 159 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 http://lifehacker.com/truecrypts-web-site-updates-with-ominous-warning-detai-1582879439 http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/truecrypt-is-not-secure-official-sourceforge-page-abruptly-warns/ And they indicate that you should jump ship immediately. And seems to officially stop support for Windows: The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click herefor more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I agree with some of the comments: something is up. There are too many weirdnesses about the announcement, and the new, oddball 7.2 version of TC, that beg closer inspection. While I'm not currently using TC, I have in the past and, if I still was, I would take a wait-and-see attitude on this one, to see how things shake out. Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 I've also used TC. To store encrypted containers on thumb drives. What is a recommended alternative? Link to post Share on other sites
Drashna Jaelre 159 Posted May 29, 2014 Author Share Posted May 29, 2014 I've also used TC. To store encrypted containers on thumb drives. What is a recommended alternative? Bitlocker. Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Be interested in seeing a good tutorial on how to do this. Any links? I use a thumb drive across multiple machines. TC was cross platform even. Link to post Share on other sites
Drashna Jaelre 159 Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Thanks. Am trying this on one of my Roadwarrior USB thumb drives. So far seems to work OK. Link to post Share on other sites
Drashna Jaelre 159 Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 To be honest, I've always found BitLocker to be a much better experience. It's smoother, integrated into Windows to the point that it's steamless, and it "just works". Link to post Share on other sites
revengineer 20 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 To be honest, I've always found BitLocker to be a much better experience. It's smoother, integrated into Windows to the point that it's steamless, and it "just works".... And it probably has a backdoor. :-) To be honest, I've always found BitLocker to be a much better experience. It's smoother, integrated into Windows to the point that it's steamless, and it "just works".... And it probably has a backdoor. :-) Link to post Share on other sites
Drashna Jaelre 159 Posted June 3, 2014 Author Share Posted June 3, 2014 Yeah, maybe. But TrueCrypt probably does too. I mean, have you gone over every line of code to verify that it doesn't? If not, then how do you know? And how do you know that the guys that make truecrypt don't have tools to quickly break into the systems that they sell to gov't agencies. Also, speaking of ENCRYPTION.... given that it easier and easier to do the number crunching for this stuff.... it would take days.... if not hours to break the encryption on a good, dedicated system. Encryption is only really good for preventing a thief from breaking into the system. Not from protecting your content from gov't agencies. Link to post Share on other sites
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