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  • All of these claims are easily able to be checked from the archived version of the site . It was not using home grown encryption algorithm.

    The last version released was independently audited and “found no evidence of deliberate backdoors, or any severe design flaws that will make the software insecure in most instances”

    I had never heard of the warrant canary for TrueCrypt, and quickly searching for news of the time, was unable to find anything to indicate that there was ever a mention of NSL on the website, so nothing to remove if they were served with a NSL.


  • My assumption has been that the author was pressured to add a backdoor or abandon the project since it was an issue for law enforcement. After TrueCrypt stopped releasing new versions, it was audited and there was no sign of any backdoor or flaw in the encryption. Now on device encryption is more common but so are cloud backups, and law enforcement has found that going after cloud backups is much easier to subpoena. Plus there is a more mature industry for law enforcement to provide tools tools to bypass encryption without the developer complying.