![]() ![]() ![]() This does not help if Skype is broken, and do to the folks on the other end, other choices are not reasonable. ![]() This does not help if any encryption that gets used is broken. I run Windows as well, but only because I need, I mean need, my Flight Simulator. This is being posted from my Linux Machine. If you happen to use TrueCrypt, you should be very, very careful right now.įiled Under: development, disk encryption, encryption, privacy, security, truecrypt While some initially questioned if this was a hoax, others quickly noted that a new version of the program was signed with the official TrueCrypt private key - meaning that it’s either legit, or TrueCrypt’s private key has been compromised (which would obviously present another serious issue). However, a little while ago, TrueCrypt’s SourceForge page suddenly announced that ” WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues” and furthermore: “The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP.” A little over a month ago, we noted that the first phase of the audit didn’t find any backdoors, but did note a few (mostly) minor vulnerabilities. #TRUECRYPT OLD VERSION HOW TO#At issue: TrueCrypt is open source and widely used and promoted (hell, Snowden himself apparently taught people how to use it), but no one really knew who was behind it - raising all sorts of questions. Last fall, we noted that the popular disk encryption software TrueCrypt was undergoing a security audit, inspired by the Snowden revelations. Wed, May 28th 2014 02:54pm - Mike Masnick ![]()
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