TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt made full-disk and container encryption accessible to a large cross-platform audience. Its sudden end prompted public audits, archival work, and successor projects including VeraCrypt.
TrueCrypt was software for creating and maintaining encrypted storage volumes.
Operation
Its documentation describes on-the-fly encryption, in which data is encrypted before storage and decrypted in memory when read.
The project ended development in May 2014 and published a warning about potential unfixed security issues.
Aftermath
The discontinuation led users toward maintained alternatives and prompted further examination of the software and its successors.
Timeline
- 2004TrueCrypt is documented as a security tool.
TrueCrypt
- Type
- Tool
- Era
- 2004-2014
- Key date
- 2004
- Tags
- disk-encryption, truecrypt, open-source, privacy, cryptography
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