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A lot of people seem who recommend TC seem to think the same about BitLocker. To be fair, TrueCrypt has been audited and the code is freely available; BitLocker
by fabulist 12y ago
A lot of people seem who recommend TC seem to think the same about BitLocker. To be fair, TrueCrypt has been audited and the code is freely available; BitLocker is proprietary, and the code is only available to a select few under NDA.
- ryanlol 12y agoTCs developers told you to stop using it, BitLocker's didn't. Even the people responsible for the audit recommend that people not use TC
- fabulist 12y agoAs always, one must consider their own threat model and make an informed decision. I personally would use BitLocker over TrueCrypt, but LUKS over BitLocker.
- Forbo 12y agoI wouldn't consider TrueCrypt's license to be the best example of "freely available".
- yellowapple 12y agoIn this context, what's important is source-code availability to the general public. A program which has publicly-available source code but is released under a nonfree (or at least potentially nonfree) license is leaps and bounds better than one which doesn't even provide the source code. Yeah, software freedom is a very good thing, but - in the context of security - it's the source code availability that matters, and that doesn't necessarily require a FOSS license.