Initially, many thought that this might be a hoax, that the TrueCrypt website might have been hacked. You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform,” TrueCrypt’s anonymous developers noted. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms. Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. “The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. However, the decision appears to have something to do with the end of support for Windows XP. No details have been provided regarding the security issues mentioned in the warning message. The SourceForge page has been apparently set up to help users migrate existing data encrypted with TrueCrypt to BitLocker, the full disk encryption feature included in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. While after the first phase of the audit it appeared that TrueCrypt could turn out to be secure, on Wednesday, visitors of were redirected to a SourceForge page containing the following message: WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues. In the first report, iSEC Partners, the company tasked with reviewing the software, revealed finding a total of eleven security issues, but they did not find any malicious code or backdoors. They managed to raise more than $70,000 for the project and in April they announced completion of phase one of the audit.
In October 2013, following rumors of the NSA’s attempts to undermine encryption software, Kenneth White, principal scientist at BAO Systems, and Matthew Green, cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, announced their intention to audit TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is not safe to use since it might contain unfixed security issues, warns a message apparently coming from the developers of the encryption software.
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