Whatever the reason, the demise of TrueCrypt not only gave rise to a two-phase audit of the code, but also a pair of projects that forked the last TrueCrypt build into separate projects that served the same purpose: provide privacy and security conscious individuals with a free and open software package to encrypt files and disk drives. Under the growing leeriness of the Snowden revelations two summers ago, the decision to audit the code and subsequent call to stop maintaining and developing TrueCrypt birthed speculation that a backdoor was found in the code, or that the developers had been served with a court order that would somehow compromise the integrity of TrueCrypt, or perhaps they were just tired of keeping up with code changes and new builds. It’s still unknown why the mysterious and anonymous builders of a software project that’s been downloaded close to 30 million times decided overnight to close up shop. TrueCrypt’s relative clean bill of health last week has now spawned a new focus on existing alternatives to the open source encryption software, namely VeraCrypt and CipherShed.īoth open source projects sprung forth from the rubble of the original TrueCrypt developers’ decision in 2014 to abandon ship.
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