![]() ![]() then nsa got the help to build a secure replacement of truecrypt. (Perhaps I'm asking something contradictory since someone who writes a TrueCrypt replacement is probably a very private person. Bulawayo-born programmer and drug lord Paul Le Roux is allegedly the brains behind TrueCrypt. It’s an alternative to TrueCrypt(project discontinued), the popular encryption tool for all Operating systems. A video interview or newsmagazine profile about them would be ideal. VeraCrypt is a free, open source and cross-platform data encryption tool. FileVault2 / CoreStorage is great, but its not a direct replacement for TrueCrypt in general, as its not cross-platform. ![]() The source code availability and the audit are even more important than knowing about the people, but knowing about the people adds something as well. 32905-2016: Information security techniquesSM3 cryptographic hash algorithm (2016). As far as I've seen no reason not to trust it. The audit of truecrypt did not show any major flaws or backdoors. (b) Who is behind VeraCrypt? I see two names (idrassi and kavsrf), but who are they really? There were only two developers? Did anyone finance it other than public donations on their website? I'm tremendously grateful for their efforts and I intend to make a donation shortly, but I think we'd all trust it a little more if we knew more about the people behind it. TrueCrypt hidden encrypted volume within an encrypted volume. Mr5oh : No one knows, and it's likely we will never know. (a) How much, if any, of the original TrueCrypt source code was used? The anonymous TrueCrypt author(s) inexplicably refused to open source their code even after abandoning the project, so although all TrueCrypt source code is available, the TrueCrypt author(s) still own it. That's wonderful news, but I'm curious about a couple things:
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