The new TrueCrypt version was cryptographically signed with a key very similar to the one used to sign the previous version of the software, and the key was generated in 2012 around the time the old key expired, so if it was a fake then this stunt would have either been planned years in advance or else someone would have had to steal the developers’ private key.The TrueCrypt development team has always been mostly anonymous, which makes it very difficult to simply ask someone whether all of this was legitimate.
Here are some facts worthy of consideration: What had happened? Had TrueCrypt really been canceled, or was this all an elaborate hoax? Immediately the security community began frantically trying to figure out what was going on. In other words, it can be used for removing TrueCrypt encryption only, not installing it. There was also a new version of TrueCrypt available, version 7.2, that only allows volume decryption. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms… You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.” Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. “The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. “This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt. “ WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues On Wednesday, seemingly out of the blue, the TrueCrypt homepage () began redirecting to the project’s SourceForge page (), which had a note stating the following: It’s multi-platform (Mac, Windows, and Linux), free and open-source software, and it’s widely believed to be virtually impenetrable. TrueCrypt has long been a widely respected whole-drive encryption product. Recommended + Security News TrueCrypt is Dead What Does This Mean for Mac Users?
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