WolfManz611: How much time have you spent on the TrueCrypt project getting it to where it is today and how many developers are working on it?Įnnead: There are currently two main developers (who are also the project administrators) working on TrueCrypt.
I am also responsible for the documentation and the website. WolfManz611: What’s your position in the TrueCrypt project?Įnnead: I’m 29 and my main project roles are the following: Project Administrator, Developer, and Designer. The only public interview (albeit unsubstantiated) I located was the Septemdialogue between blogger WolfManz611 and TrueCrypt developer Ennead: Case in point, only a chosen few even know who the developers are. TrueCrypt’s developers have been steeped in mystery ever since the first version came out ten years ago. A major volunteer project was under way, run by legitimate crypto people, to give it a formal security audit.” Some history
Taken together, these two facts suggest that the message is legitimate, and that TrueCrypt is officially being retired.”įor those not familiar with TrueCrypt, ZDNet said it was “ an open-source software project for file and full-disk encryption. Krebs said, “What’s more, the last version of TrueCrypt uploaded to the site on May 27 shows that the key used to sign the executable installer file is the same one that was used to sign the program back in January 2014. Krebs said, “A cursory review of the site’s historic hosting, WHOIS, and DNS records shows no substantive changes recently.”
However, Brian Krebs and Dan Goodin, independently, determined that is most likely not the case. First impressions were that the TrueCrypt website was hacked. According to ZDNet, TrueCrypt developers shuttered their website on May 28 and redirected traffic to this webpage in the same mysterious fashion that the premier open-source encryption application came into existence. Thinking about downloading the latest version of TrueCrypt? Forget about it. In a surprise move, TrueCrypt's developers appear to have closed up shop. The mystery surrounding TrueCrypt’s departure