![]() We are not sure what the TrueCrypt developers would think of their code's use. It shouldn't come as a surprise since it appears to be based on TrueCrypt's source code. VeraCrypt is based on TrueCrypt's source code and looks very similar to TrueCrypt. In the meantime, a French cryptography and IT security company called IDRIX announced the release of VeraCrypt 1.0e. Unfortunate, it has been over a month ago since that announcement, with no updates on the security review. This is remarkable progress though, since they only started coding work mid-June. Despite considerable skepticism, they announced in September that their fledging effort, CipherShed, is now closer to alpha release, pending a security review. In stepped TrueCryptNext (TCNext) - an attempt to kickstart a replacement for TrueCrypt. ![]() That pretty much killed their fanbase at that point. That meant any developer can use the TrueCrypt source code as "reference" but must start their work from scratch. However, they were soon hit by another bombshell - one of the developers of TrueCrypt announced that they won't agree to an official fork of TrueCrypt. Thus, it was no big surprise when everyone started to call for a new team to develop TrueCrypt, or a fork of it. That said, there is a genuine need for TrueCrypt to be further developed, if only to support newer operating systems and to remove or mitigate the weaknesses identified by the TrueCrypt Audit. ![]() In fact, Phase 1 of the TrueCrypt Audit showed " no evidence of backdoors or otherwise intentionally malicious code". Well, the truth of the matter is TrueCrypt hasn't been updated since February 2012, and is no more vulnerable than it was before they pulled the plug on it. Many users started panicking, especially when they read the warning that " Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues". Those of you who have been following our coverage of TrueCrypt will remember the uproar when the secretive developers of TrueCrypt mysteriously and unceremoniously pulled the plug on TrueCrypt on the 28th of May, 2014. ED#185 : The New TrueCrypt - VeraCrypt Or CipherShed?
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