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TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

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Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#31
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 paged linked in the post explains how to create a VHD file, mount it using windows disk management, and then encrypt it using bitlocker. It supports dynamically expanding disks as well as fixed size disks that can be manually grown and volumes extended at a later date.

Using this method you can easily burn or transfer your VHDs, you can also store VHDs inside of VHDs.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#33
post #15
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...

Seems legit enough: http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#36
post #4

Is that real? Is the web page just defaced?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/files/TrueCrypt/Ot...

All of the files are freshly uploaded.

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Check this out too:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

http://sourceforge.net/u/tc-foundation/profile/

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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#37
post #15
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...

On the other hand, SourceForge lists the project as having been created in 2004: http://sourceforge.net/projects/truecrypt/

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

#39

Well - this comes as a pretty big surprise. Is this real? Is there a known vulnerability that catalyzed this? Money from Microsoft? Threats? I'm not buying into conspiracy theories, but it does seem pretty out of place.

The binaries are properly GPG-signed with the same key as the previous binaries, check for yourself. [They] either compromised their private key too or the actual developer(s) did this. Be it voluntarily or by force of secret three-character agencies / a massive pay check.
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