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> There’s just one problem: no one knows who created the software. What do they mean by this? Do we literally don't know who created Truecrypt?
by laurent123456 13y ago
> There’s just one problem: no one knows who created the software.
What do they mean by this? Do we literally don't know who created Truecrypt?
- yeukhon 13y agoOne thing for sure it is based on another software. See History (http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/version-history2 http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/version-history2) > 1.0 > February 2, 2004 > Note: TrueCrypt 1.0 is based on E4M (Encryption for the > Masses). Therefore, the following list contains > differences between E4M 2.02a and TrueCrypt 1.0 (minor > differences have been omitted).
- cantrevealname 13y ago> Do we literally don't know who created Truecrypt? Yes, that's right. (The very earliest version was based on work 13 years ago by Paul Le Roux, but it's undergone enormous work since then by some person or group.) TrueCrypt is a popular, carefully designed, well written, well maintained, highly stable and non-trivial application, but its authors are completely unknown. The open source world does have some quiet humble people, but it seems surprising that the authors want to remain totally anonymous for developing a legitimate and well-respected product.
- hrktb 13y agoInteresting. About anonymity, there is always the case where you don't want people knocking at your door to ask for backdoors, hidden vulnerabilities or any other requests about the software that you don't want to deal with.
- cLeEOGPw 13y agoSame with bitcoin. Is it that good knowledge of cryptography somehow makes the author to hide it's identity?
- 16s 13y agoPeople continually discover this and are shocked to learn that the authors are anonymous. This has been a known fact since at least 2005. The authors of TC are anonymous and have been for a very, very long time.