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If anything that cryptic abandonment actually gave me more confidence in TrueCrypt. Was it so hard to crack that the government shut it down?

• paavokoya 10y ago
  I meant confidence in what came after it. Meaning the likelihood of a backdoored and/or weak software was likely.
  • tptacek 10y ago
    This is the "NSAKEY" of open source crypto conspiracy theories.
    • quickben 10y ago
      As far as I recall, there are 8 bytes set to zero in the TC header at a very curious location.
      • tptacek 10y ago
        That's always how these worst backdoors begin... with curious patterns of zeroes. How better to zero out a key than with actual zeroes. Nobody will ever suspect!
  • Nition 10y ago
    Ah I get what you meant now, I agree. If some entity already had their eye on TrueCrypt and had shut it down, you wouldn't expect them to let a copycat pop up unless it was less secure.