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But maybe what they did today makes that impossible. They set the whole thing on fire, and now maybe nobody is going to trust it because they’ll think there’s s
by compbio 12y ago
But maybe what they did today makes that impossible. 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. But now this decision makes me feel like they’re kind of unreliable. Also, I’m a little worried that the fact that we were doing an audit of the crypto might have made them decide to call it quits. - Matthew Green
TrueCrypt's developers chose not to graciously turn their beloved creation over to a wider Internet development community, but rather, ... to attempt to kill it off by creating a dramatically neutered 7.2 version ... - Steve Gibson
I have no idea what's going on with TrueCrypt, Speculations include a massive hack of the TrueCrypt developers, some Lavabit-like forced shutdown, and an internal power struggle within TrueCrypt. I suppose we'll have to wait and see what develops. - Bruce Schneier.
- tptacek 12y agoMatthew Green does not believe there is a Truecrypt conspiracy. Source: I've discussed this with him at length as an advisor to the TC audit project. Steve Gibson isn't a cryptographer, and your quote doesn't respond to my question. Bruce Schneier I'll have to accept as a totally valid rebuttal to my implied point. This is something that really irritates me about Schneier, for what it's worth. He's also behind a meme that elliptic curve cryptography is less safe than RSA, when the reality is almost the opposite.
- compbio 12y agoI think those quotes were a bit snotty, especially considering your stature and knowledge on this. I don't think I was trying to rebut you, as much as I was simply trying my luck at advocating that user's view. Sorry for that.