Krebson covered it pretty well here: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secure/
And a few more speculations here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/29/truecrypt_analysis/ For the most part the general consensus is they're no longer wanting to continue development - perhaps through pressure, or this release would spark a lot of sensitive people to momentarily make their data vulnerable whilst switching to an alternative. This comes at a time where full auditing was about to go underway (they had only audited the bootloader in the past), which in itself adds to the speculation. Really an open-source variant needs to be made readily-available to the average consumer. I know of plenty of non-IT-savvy people who would love an opportunity to secure their local data (photos, email, work) but don't know how - given their current options there's a clear gap in the market for this; the paranoid consumer. (Rightly so is objective.) On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Anthony Fontanez <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm surprised I haven't seen any discussion about the recent issues with > TrueCrypt. Links to current discussions follow. > > /r/sysadmin: > http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/26pxol/truecrypt_is_dead/ > /r/netsec: > http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_development_has_ended_052814/ > > Thank you, > > Anthony Fontanez > PC Systems Administrator > Client Services - College of Liberal Arts > Information & Technology Services, Enterprise Support > Rochester Institute of Technology > LBR-A290 > 585-475-2208 (office) > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > Submit a request via email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > Check the status of an active request: > footprints.rit.edu<https://footprints.rit.edu/> > Manage your RIT account and computers: start.rit.edu<https://start.rit.edu/> > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information transmitted, including attachments, is > intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may > contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, > dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this > information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is > prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and > destroy any copies of this information. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list > http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure > Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/ -- James Healy Stoic, PO Box 17042, Greenlane, Auckland 1546. w: www.stoic.co.nz e: [email protected] p: 09 280 3639 m: 027 900 17 44 _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
