{"id":1238,"date":"2014-06-07T08:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T08:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-no.104.210.61.21.xip.io\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2014-06-07T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T08:41:34","slug":"truecrypt-is-still-safe-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"TrueCrypt is still safe to use."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to download TrueCrypt today and was greeted with this warning on the official site to download truecrypt:<a title=\"http:\/\/truecrypt.sourceforge.net\/\" href=\"http:\/\/truecrypt.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/truecrypt.sourceforge.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5\/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8\/7\/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/truecrypt.sourceforge.net\/OtherPlatforms.html\">here<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0for more information). You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thought that the reason sounded a little dubious, so I decided to research this a bit more. I came across Steve Gibson&#8217;s blog with an \u00a0 excellent write-up.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/www.grc.com\/misc\/truecrypt\/truecrypt.htm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grc.com\/misc\/truecrypt\/truecrypt.htm\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.grc.com\/misc\/truecrypt\/truecrypt.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So it sounds like the jury is out as far as the announcement of truecrypt being untrustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>more to come as the story develops&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to download TrueCrypt today and was greeted with this warning on the official site to download truecrypt:\u00a0http:\/\/truecrypt.sourceforge.net\/ WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issuesThis page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5\/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}