TrueCrypt Open-Source Disk-Encryption Project Shuts Down

Sometimes, when difficulties arise in an open-source project, the effort is forked, but in other cases, projects just shut down. For the open-source TrueCrypt disk-encryption project, the latter is now true as the project is shutting down and users are being warned that the technology is no longer secure.

The TrueCrypt project is hosted on the SourceForge open-source code repository, which posted an ominous warning May 28: "Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues. "

The project is now recommending that users migrate away from TrueCrypt to other disk-encryption technologies.

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