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TrueCrypt Open-Source Disk-Encryption Project Shuts Down

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 30, 2014

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.
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