DARK CRYPT TC UPDATE

Was the original Truecrypt itself an NSA project and the shenanigans yesterday designed to keep people using the 7.1a and earlier versions (assuming there’s some sort of subtle compromise)? Was the change some sort of “dead man’s switch” that was spring loaded by the developer? Whatever the case, the Truecrypt project is now that friend who usually seems like a good guy, but suddenly turned sketchy.

DARK CRYPT TC UPDATE

The update to to where the truecrypt site is redirected has a much more amateurish quality than the original site. Of if Bruce pulled this page, sought to deprecate Blowfish/Twofish and instead told everyone “Hey, you should really be using MacGuffin”Ĭ. Almost as if Phil Zimmerman shut down all his web sites and told people to stop using PGP and that they should use something called Bass-o-matic. The endorsement of BitLocker feeds into the later point above.

It could also be the modern analog to something like this: ī. Its the sort of thing that would be automated in a development environment for a contractor doing work for the. The odd source code edit where comments referring to “U.S.” had the text altered to “United States” seems noteworthy.

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