TrueCrypt

Since the anonymous team behind TrueCrypt has left the building, security aware people were left wondering what’s next. I personally keep using TrueCrypt and as long as it works I will keep recommending it.

Recently, Bruce Schneier has raised a few red flags by his strange advice that seems to indicate that he is being paid now for his “services to the community” by parties not so interested in keeping the community secure. One more thing is his advice to switch from TrueCrypt to BitLocker.

The guys that “disappeared” from behind TrueCrypt recommended to switch to BitLocker and that makes BitLocker suspect right away. Moreover, anyone working in security would be right suspecting that BitLocker, coming from Microsoft, would be backdoor-ed. And now Bruce Schneier is coming out and saying that he recommends BitLocker now instead of TrueCrypt? Great. I am not going to trust either.

TrueCrypt for the moment remains the only trustworthy application for disk encryption. There is an effort to make TrueCrypt survive and support newer features of the file systems. I hope it works and we still have some tool to trust in five years from now.

I have also stored the recent versions of TrueCrypt.