As the official developers of TrueCrypt discontinued the software and left the following messages on the official website
WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues
I am wondering about all the multiple but credible sources to obtain TrueCrypt 7.1a, if I am correct this was the most common, favoured, and seen as "safest" version to use.
Ideally I am looking for 5+ credible sources which contain the software and matching hashes.
Also I believe the official TrueCrypt website used to list the hash for the corresponding download, are these hashs also visible @ some credible places? I assume the hashes and downloads must be the same @ all credible sources.
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The Wikipedia page for TrueCrypt references this link as the final release repository for the last official TrueCrypt release before the project was killed.
Note that this link is from Gibson Research Corporation, a private, for-profit security research firm. I am not endorsing GRC's products in any way.
The source code for TrueCrypt is freely available, and a full audit is currently underway. For the time being, TrueCrypt is still considered secure. Reports that TrueCrypt has been hacked have not been substantiated.
2Im afraid its true, TrueCrypt has been cracked according to a number of official sources and is no longer considered a secure means to encrypt emails and such.
PGP ( Pretty Good Protection ) used to be one of the better ways to encrypt stuff as it had a key sent first then the message and without both emails then you couldnt decrypt it.
If I send anything that needs to be encrypted, i pack it in a RAR file with a password and phone the recipient and give them the password or send it in a text message way more secure these days. Winrar is cheap enough to buy and easy enough to use with files of any size.
This is advice and should be taken as such
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