From the TrueCrypt website:
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WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security
issues
This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.
The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated
support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support
for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also
available on other platforms (click here for more information). You should
migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk
images supported on your platform.
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This is very suspicious. Not only have they changed their website to promote
a proprietary encryption program, but they've also released a new version of
TrueCrypt, with commits that are uncomfortably odd. I think it's unlikely
that it's some rogue cracker, as they would need the GPG keys for the
compilation of the new 7.2 version.
My money is on this being a warrant-canary. Someone or some group is forcing
TrueCrypt to install a backdoor, and this is the developers' way of warning
everyone. We could be observing another Lavabit 2.0 in slow motion. And it is
yet another reason to only use FSF-certified free software licenses.
Some interesting discussion here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/26pz9b/truecrypt_development_has_ended_052814/
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/26qe9f/truecrypt_is_not_secure_official_sourceforge_page/
