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is truecrypt dead?
For those with imminent interest:
http://rpmfusion.org/Package/realcrypt
cheers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cypherpunks [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Peter Gutmann
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 12:25 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: is truecrypt dead?
>
> Griffin Boyce <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >Why is it that these things that thousands of people rely on are not
> >audited in any real way?
>
> It's open-source, so there's the presumption of audit, "I couldn't be
> bothered looking at it, but since it's open source someone else must
> have". The odd thing is that it's some of the commercial vendors, who
> are doing it for money and can pay to have the code checked, for which
> you have at least some presumption of audit, but since they're closed-
> source you're not allowed to trust them.
>
> Peter.