{"id":17315,"date":"2014-05-29T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17315"},"modified":"2014-05-29T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:08:51","slug":"heads-up-for-truecrypt-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/29\/heads-up-for-truecrypt-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads-up for TrueCrypt users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody seems sure what&#8217;s going on, not even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/05\/truecrypt_wtf.html\" target=\"_blank\">the spectacularly well-informed Bruce Schneier<\/a>. But TrueCrypt, the whole-disc encryption program many have relied on for a decade, has either been mysteriously compromised or somebody&#8217;s pulled off a hoax. Brian Krebs <a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2014\/05\/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secure\/\" target=\"_blank\">thinks it&#8217;s the real deal<\/a> and that the secretive TrueCrypt team is sending us all a warning.<\/p>\n<p>As some have pointed out, the cryptic <a href=\"http:\/\/truecrypt.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;official&#8221; announcement<\/a> that &#8220;TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues &#8230;&#8221; could be read as &#8220;<strong>N<\/strong>ot <strong>S<\/strong>ecure <strong>A<\/strong>s &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope for a hoax. TrueCrypt being subverted would be a major heartbreaker. And always &#8230; be careful out there.<\/p>\n<p>(Tip o&#8217; hat to S.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody seems sure what&#8217;s going on, not even the spectacularly well-informed Bruce Schneier. But TrueCrypt, the whole-disc encryption program many have relied on for a decade, has either been mysteriously compromised or somebody&#8217;s pulled off a hoax. Brian Krebs thinks it&#8217;s the real deal and that the secretive TrueCrypt team is sending us all a warning. As some have pointed out, the cryptic &#8220;official&#8221; announcement that &#8220;TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues &#8230;&#8221; could be read as &#8220;Not Secure As &#8230;&#8221; Let&#8217;s hope for a hoax. TrueCrypt being subverted would be a major heartbreaker. And&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/29\/heads-up-for-truecrypt-users\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heads-up for TrueCrypt users<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}