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TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

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Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

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Post by kintamanimatt »

Tomte wrote: post #4

Is that real? Is the web page just defaced?

My money is on the site being compromised. If this were a legit, why would they be doing a 302 redirect to a SourceForge page instead of keeping the notice it under their own domain? Also, if TC only existed for XP users, why even have a *nix version? None of this makes sense in the context of this being a legitimate notice.

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Post by ACow_Adonis »

I remember TrueCrypt from several years ago when I was looking into various options for encryption. Haven't used encryption for a while, but if this is true, is there now an encryption software/service that doesn't involve being authored by a large corporation in the country that gave us the NSA, and which allows things like hidden volumes/partitions, algorithm choices, and use with various portable devices?

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Post by jodrellblank »

Tomte wrote: post #7

Turning on Bitlocker has been on my TODO list for quite some time now, but to me the real value of Truecrypt wasn't full disk encryption, it was having encrypted volumes and mounting them on a as-needed basis. And how do I handle sensitive stuff wrt backups? I could burn a Truecrypt volume to a DVD or Blu-ray. I cannot do this in any way with Bitlocker, can I?

I cannot do this in any way with Bitlocker, can I?

Yes. There's BitLocker to Go for encrypting removable drives, and with Windows Professional editions you can create and mount a VHD virtual hard disk file as if it was any other drive, and Bitlocker encrypt it, e.g.

http://www.concurrency.com/blog/encrypted-container-using-bi...

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

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Post by artumi-richard »

sp332 wrote: post #9
edwintorok wrote: post #3

So what was the point of raising money to audit TrueCrypt if they knew they would shut it down once XP was EOL? In fact why didn't they announce this earlier?

Maybe the result of the audit is that it's not secure?

But without a similar audit on the alternatives proving their security, surely the most responsible action would be just to explain there is a problem and stop there.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

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Post by alecdbrooks »

braum wrote: post #6

I'm really confused. Which isn't unusual really, but in this case I think it is understandable.

I'm with you. This seems like an odd move, given that most likely only a minority of their users used XP for some time. Why haven't they been warning Windows Vista, 7 and 8 users to use Bitlocker for years (not to mention Mac OS X and Linux users)? Perhaps I just missed the warnings, but I am really puzzled.

I suppose the developers could have just found a massive vulnerability (perhaps they're doing their own audit in advance of the public one?).

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

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Post by mrmattyboy »

Why have they only talk about how to secure a partition in Windows. Would the developers, or persons who took over the project, not care about other operating systems?!

Of course, by 'they', I mean the fake development team that the hijacker of the site wanted to portray... no way this is real

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