What really happened to TrueCrypt back in 2014? Did anyone ever find out?
It was a widely used encryption tool, that was suddenly dropped with the message " not safe, use something else".
What really happened to TrueCrypt back in 2014? Did anyone ever find out?
It was a widely used encryption tool, that was suddenly dropped with the message " not safe, use something else".
This was always my assumption as well. When they quit the project, didn’t they leave some message recommending Microsoft BitLocker as an alternative? Everyone at the time interpreted this as the clearest “they’re already in the room with me” warning sign, given that that kind of project would NEVER reasonably make such a closed source, corporate centered recommendation …