On 12/5/14, sajolida <[email protected]> wrote: > Jacob Appelbaum: >> On 12/4/14, intrigeri <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Except creating such volumes, every other thing has been possible, >>> documented and advertised to people every time they use TrueCrypt >>> since Tails 1.2 (or earlier, I don't remember): >>> https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/truecrypt/ >> >> Most of your TrueCrypt users are not on the tails-dev list, I guess? >> >> I think it makes sense to remove TrueCrypt - it may also be that an >> announcement about how to use TrueCrypt and the replacement are also >> important for prominent blog entry or website update before the next >> major release. > > What intrigeri wanted to say is that since 1.2, when starting TrueCrypt, > people were warned that it would be removed in 1.2.1 and pointed to that > piece of documentation explaining how to open TC volume with cryptsetup. >
OK. That makes sense - though I suspect that many will simply forget or will not have understood. > So people actively using TrueCrypt have been pointed to that doc and > already know how to continue using their existing volumes in 1.2.1. > > I find this more elegant than hammering the blog about the end of a > "feature" that that has been deprecated for years. > Many users that I know use Tails specifically for TrueCrypt - even if it is considered deprecated, it is still one of the safest, easy and contained ways to use TrueCrypt. We'll see from support requests what happens, I think. All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
