Life after TrueCrypt

  • 12 June 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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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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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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I've moved on to BitLocker.

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