Turns out my first speculation was correct. Steve Barnhart at GRC has been in communication with one of the TrueCrypt developers, one "Dave", who reported that the reason for the shutdown was simply that "There is no longer interest" in developing and maintaining TrueCrypt.
Article here: https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss