![]() ![]() They set the whole thing on fire, and now maybe nobody is going to trust it because they'll think there's some big evil vulnerability in the code." ![]() They decided to quit and this is their signature way of doing it. Yet cryptographer Matthew Green, who helped start a crowdfunding effort to raise $70,000 so TrueCrypt could be professionally audited, said he had started "to have warm and fuzzy feelings about the code, thinking were just nice guys who didn't want their names out there." Green told Brian Krebs, "I think the TrueCrypt team did this. We hope to have some *big* announcements this week, so stay tuned." Yesterday, the TrueCrypt Audit Project added a "p.s. Was this the work of the TrueCrypt team, and is it insecure? The first phase of auditing TrueCrypt source code found " no evidence of backdoors or intentional flaws." There were a few security vulnerabilities found, but nothing severe. It's also commented with things like "INSECURE_APP." You can now no longer encrypt, but only decrypt with TrueCrypt 7.2. There's a link to download TrueCrypt version 7.2, along with a warning to do so only "if you are migrating data encrypted by TrueCrypt." There are extensive changes when comparing source code for the two versions. At the bottom of the page there is another warning that states, "Using TrueCrypt is not secure." There's also a how-to for non-system drives encrypted by TrueCrypt and creating a new virtual hard drive (VHD). This includes how to enable BitLocker if you don't see it when right-clicking on a drive, or what to do if BitLocker reports a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) error. That announcement is followed by a step-by-step guide to help people migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt. You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). ![]() Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. If you attempt to visit, you will be redirected to and see, "WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues." ![]()
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