Re: [LUG] Truecrypt

[MWilliams <mwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From https://twitter.com/sggrc

Leon Zandman â@leonzandman 18m
@thurrott @maryjofoley Did you see http://truecrypt.org has apparently 
been hacked. Site now advises people to use BitLocker instead!

Dave Bird â@counterfitninja 6m
@leonzandman @thurrott @maryjofoley rumour from @SGgrc is that its 
something to do with Tonight's Snowden interview

Steve Gibson â@SGgrc 2m
@counterfitninja @leonzandman @thurrott @maryjofoley Remember, Dave, I carefully termed it an "Early unsubstantiated rumor" :) Who knows?

I'd look to Steve Gibson (above) and Bruce Schneier for a reasonable and 
informed distillation of the facts in due course.

Will be tracking this closely though. Thank you.



On 28/05/2014 21:45, Simon Avery wrote:
> Lots of FUD around regarding it. It's possible the websites have been
> compromised (and the GPG key, although it's apparently an older one) -
> but if so it's a mightily well orchestrated effort.
>
> I'm waiting for the smoke to clear and check back in a day or two.
>
>
> On 28 May 2014 21:42, Martin Gautier <martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:martin.gautier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 28/05/14 21:22, Simon Avery wrote:
>>     This is odd. Anyone have more info for the reasoning here?
>>      (Without jumping to the obvious tinhat conclusion they've been
>>     given incentives by Microsoft)
>>
>>     truecrypt.org <http://truecrypt.org> redirects to:
>>
>>     http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>     "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 here
>>     <http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/OtherPlatforms.html>; for more
>>     information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt
>>     to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform."
>>
>>
>     Looks to have happened in the last 2 hours.
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/ I'm downloading the
>     source now...
>
>     This is a bad thing
>
>     Martin
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