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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 nikbackm »

myoldryn wrote: post #284
nikcub wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But what does XP being EOL'd have to do with anything? Every version of Windows after XP has a native disk encryption utility. TrueCrypt was built to bring full disk encryption to Windows, which didn't exist at the time - this is the developers way of saying "you don't need us anymore, Windows now does what we did"

Not every version... In case of Vista and 7 only Enterprise and Ultimate editions have it and in case of 8/8.1 you need to have Pro or Enterprise edition.

True, but if you need disk encryption you probably use one of those already.

I mean, a normal use case is a corporate laptop used when traveling or similar. Normal home users certainly have no need of it, for them it's just something else that can go wrong and destroy all their data.

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Post by Canada »

A_Non_eMouse wrote: post #258
Canada wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

VC++ 1.52 is required to build the boot loader. You can still download it from MSDN. I can see why they would have an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude there.

But, being a 16-bit program, it won't run on 64-bit windows. I'm not even sure it would install properly on anything newer than XP. I haven't tried installing it since the 9x days. There are several things MS has released that don't install on newer systems very well. There are some where the installer depends on an old version of Internet Explorer being installed and which fail miserably on newer versions.

I build my own TrueCrypt binaries on my 64bit Windows 7 box.

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Post by dannyvanhooy »

cptn_brittish wrote: post #254
therealmarv wrote: post #158

Maybe it is time for LibreTruecrypt ;) like LibreSSL !

No it has to be called openTruecrypt first and then we fork that to LibreTruecrypt

Opentruecrypt.net also registered in Germany. I saw also the project at Github.

Re: TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?

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Post by dang »

rflig2 wrote: post #363
Shorel wrote: post #288

It is the only full disk encryption software currently used that offers plausible deniability. Plausible deniability is the key here. It think the FBI and/or the NSA bullied the developers and forced them to this.

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