What really happened to TrueCrypt back in 2014? Did anyone ever find out?

It was a widely used encryption tool, that was suddenly dropped with the message " not safe, use something else".

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Maybe March 30, 2016:

    The Strange Origins of TrueCrypt, ISIS’s Favored Encryption Tool

    By Evan Ratliff for The New Yorker (paywall)

    In isis’s training and operational planning, Callimachi reported, the group appeared to routinely use a piece of software called TrueCrypt. When one would-be bomber was dispatched from Syria to France, Callimachi writes, “an Islamic State computer specialist handed him a USB key. It contained CCleaner, a program used to erase a user’s online history on a given computer, as well as TrueCrypt, an encryption program that was widely available at the time and that experts say has not yet been cracked.”

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      2 days ago

      That wasn’t the article. It was in some lesser-known magazine (maybe even a blog) and it wasn’t about ISIS or the terrorists we know today. It was written specifically about the guy who created the program and his connection to drug cartels, if I remember correctly.