![]() ![]() The whole recommendation of OS level encryption seems an odd recommendation from security experts when there are better alternatives out there. The only way to really connect these two separate events is that they are both ending support. ![]() Looking back at the above statement, Microsoft support ending for Windows XP doesn’t really have anything to do with TrueCrypt, which is a multi-platform encryption solution. Phase 2 would include a deeper look at the encryption algorithms and, despite the now abandoned status of the software, I hope it still happens. ![]() The Open Crypto Audit Project has already completed a phase 1 audit report of TrueCrypt searching for backdoors. In fact, since the Heartbleed bug there has been a movement to audit critical open source software to try and catch vulnerabilities. It is more of a blanket statement to warn users of the possible implications of using any unsupported piece of software. The warning does not indicate that there are any actual security issues. Now, at a glance this is a bit of a confusing statement. ![]() Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images.You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform. The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. The website url now redirects to their SourceForge page with a strange message: WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues Speaking of TrueCrypt, the open source encryption project was mysteriously brought to a halt last week. ![]()
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