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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by harshreality on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @04:09PM (#7812518)
True. Security announcements have been botched in the past, for all sorts of reasons, not that you have any experience with that, of course. But what does XP being EOL'd have to do with anything? That and the blithe recommendation to use other solutions, even though they don't have hidden volume functionality which is a main selling point of TC, is what changed my mind, from thinking this is probably a legit mishandled disclosure, to thinking it's probably fake.

On the other hand, as pointed out in other subthreads, if the devs are tired of maintaining it, this could be a legit, unappreciated-developer version of a temper tantrum. Nobody seems to know (yet).

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by nikcub on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:10PM (#7814310)
> But what does XP being EOL'd have to do with anything?

Every version of Windows after XP has a native disk encryption utility. TrueCrypt was built to bring full disk encryption to Windows, which didn't exist at the time - this is the developers way of saying "you don't need us anymore, Windows now does what we did"

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by myoldryn on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:40PM (#7814412)
Not every version... In case of Vista and 7 only Enterprise and Ultimate editions have it and in case of 8/8.1 you need to have Pro or Enterprise edition.
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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by nikbackm on Friday May 30, 2014 @05:01AM (#7820876)
True, but if you need disk encryption you probably use one of those already.

I mean, a normal use case is a corporate laptop used when traveling or similar. Normal home users certainly have no need of it, for them it's just something else that can go wrong and destroy all their data.

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Re:TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker? by rflig on Thursday May 29, 2014 @03:32AM (#7815160)
FDE was available from different vendors (I bought DriveCrypt PlusPack more than 15 yr ago and tried CompuSec (free) more than 10 yr ago, Comodo FDE is around since ~2k8). So availability of FDE software can hardly be the reason. Neither the credibility of M$, in matters of quality of code as well as especially being an US based company.
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