On 5/29/2014 5:41 AM, Matt Simmons wrote:
You might also want to read this article from The Register, linked to
from that reddit thread:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/28/truecrypt_hack/
I admit that I thought about posting all this yesterday, when I first
heard about it, but kept expecting it to show up here.
So there are lots of possibilities here, including hoax, or nsa
coercion resulting in a lavabit-esque results, or a few other
speculative possibilities... But whatever is going on, I say,
WTF.
I would say that the binaries themselves are fine, and the most telling
comment from arstechnica is the first one.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/05/truecrypt-is-not-secure-official-sourceforge-page-abruptly-warns/?comments=1
I'm normally not much of a conspiracy theory type, but in this case,
I'm leaning towards the Lavabit theory.
So it goes.
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the upper you wind. (Frazz, aka Jef Mallett)
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