TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? • Hacker News Board

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#11

Post by sp332 » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:30 PM UTC

OS X version http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/OtherPlatforms.html

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#12

Post by diminoten » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:30 PM UTC

There's no way this is legit, but if it is, what other kind of cross-platform solution is available? I need to be able to encrypt/decrypt on all 3 major OSes.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#13

Post by eli » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:31 PM UTC

The advice for Linux is "Search available installation packages for words encryption and crypt, install any of the packages found and follow its documentation."

So... just any of them, then? Sure, ok.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#14

Post by notlisted » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:32 PM UTC

I recently came across this link (Apr 15 2014) [1] which references [2]. Wonder what happened.

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/t/encryption/sloppy-secure-open-sou...

[2] https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/iSec_Final_Open_Crypto_A...

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#15

Post by rsync » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:32 PM UTC

Tomte wrote: post #4

Is that real? Is the web page just defaced?

truecrypt.org does a redirect to this sourceforge page, so perhaps it is the DNS that got hijacked, and not truecrypt website itself.

I don't remember TC ever being hosted on SF, so I think this is a bad redirect...

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#16

Post by harrystone » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:32 PM UTC

Call me paranoid but this just looks like really good evidence that Truecrypt was secure.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#17

Post by zomg » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:33 PM UTC

wow this is a kick in the nuts. i've been using truecrypt for years. i probably won't stop just because development has ceased... but i'm still curious to know what the real story is behind this. seems sketchy.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#18

Post by this_user » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:33 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #13

The advice for Linux is "Search available installation packages for words encryption and crypt, install any of the packages found and follow its documentation." So... just any of them, then? Sure, ok.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption#Compari...

This might help.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#19

Post by guan » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:33 PM UTC

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?

The page contains instructions for creating a virtual disk file (VHD) and encrypting that with BitLocker.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#20

Post by rio517 » Wed, May 28, 2014, 7:34 PM UTC

diminoten wrote: post #12

There's no way this is legit, but if it is, what other kind of cross-platform solution is available? I need to be able to encrypt/decrypt on all 3 major OSes.

I'm in a similar position. I dualboot and have a truecrypt volume I share between Linux mint and Win7. Works great.