Do you think it's possible that the government is behind the conspiracy to discredit TrueCrypt?
The code was audited and it passed with mostly flying colors. The FBI tried for months to crack open a laptop encrypted with TrueCrypt and failed. They knew that they can't break TrueCrypt's implementation of AES-256. So perhaps they decided to launch a campaign to discredit TrueCrypt instead.
And the sad part is that it seems to have been successful. Pretty much everyone including even tech-minded people are now under the false impression that TrueCrypt is broken. So now they use Microsoft's proprietary closed-source BitLocker instead which is probably full of NSA backdoors. :(
What if the real conspiracy is making people believe there's a conspiracy that truecrypt was audited positively?
Elijah Davis
>The developer just pussied out because he got tired of his project. kek that isn't even scratching the surface
Alexander Roberts
Paul Le Roux didn't get tired. He got a bonfire lit under his ass by the government. He shut down his operation because it was becoming a liability.
Luke Ross
My bad, alright then, they didn't get tired of it but there was allegedly stolen code. At least in E4M.
>David Tesařík registered the TrueCrypt trademarking the US and Czech Republic, and Ondrej Tesarik registered the not-for-profit TrueCrypt company in the US.
Were there more than 3 people on the TrueCrypt team?
True, but the full disk encryption feature is far less useful now since most modern computers come with UEFI and secure boot which TC doesn't support.
When the main website shut down, it was replaced by a message that recommended BitLocker. Many people thought this was a sign that things weren't right because BitLocker is a closed-source proprietary piece of software written by a company (Microsoft) that is on friendly terms with the NSA.
And yet if you look at what most businesses and people use today then it's BitLocker. People like the convenience of Microsoft's solution since it's integrated into the OS.
Hence why I said it passed with mostly flying colors. To be completely fair, there were some rather minor bugs found, but overall they found it was pretty solid.
