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Encryption is a silent, unsung hero of our modern connected society . From
protecting your sensitive details when you log on to Internet banking to
protecting data on your laptop or mobile phone if it is lost or stolen, ‘
crypto’ (the oft used shortened version of encryption) is a supporting
pillar of the global economy and most of the digital world we all touch day
to day. Establishing trust in crypto (and thus in technology as a whole),
now more than ever with the revelations of the past 18 months, is difficult
and the following news therefore potentially comes as a significant blow to
online privacy and security. Or as some in the industry would put it, or is
it?
Over the past 24 hours the website for TrueCrypt (a very widely used
encryption solution) was updated with a rather unusually styled message
stating that TrueCrypt is “considered harmful” and should not be used. If
you have not come across TrueCrypt and why it has become so popular see the
below section ‘why do people use TrueCrypt’. The announcement posted at
truecrypt.sourceforge.net states:
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“WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security
issues… The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft
MSFT +0.82% terminated support of Windows XP. Windows 8/7/Vista and later
offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such
integrated support is also available on other platforms… You should migrate
any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images
supported on your platform” |
