Re:CipherShed, the Truecrypt fork
by acqq on Monday August 18, 2014 @02:16AM
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Reading the "news" section, they actually still haven't made any changes, they just managed to compile it!
Some other place that forked the TrueCrypt sources to some repo (VeraCrypt) managed to change a few constants and make the containers incompatible. At least they addressed a known TC weakness: the low number of PBKDF2 passes.
Finally, the contribution of the TruCrypt.ch (TCNext) is that they put the original sources and binaries behind a new domain name and wrote "TrueCrypt must not die."
In short, it's easy to put other's work behind a new domain or in another repo, it's hard and costly to do the real development.
Some other place that forked the TrueCrypt sources to some repo (VeraCrypt) managed to change a few constants and make the containers incompatible. At least they addressed a known TC weakness: the low number of PBKDF2 passes.
Finally, the contribution of the TruCrypt.ch (TCNext) is that they put the original sources and binaries behind a new domain name and wrote "TrueCrypt must not die."
In short, it's easy to put other's work behind a new domain or in another repo, it's hard and costly to do the real development.