Truecrypt 5.0 is OUT!

OK guys, TrueCrypt 5.0 is really out and it really rocks ;) Bashing the guys at TC was a sort of speedup for a work that, we’re sure, without our contribution would have been unpublished for at least another couple of years.

Some little difference in TC and OSXCrypt must be taken in account:

And to the TC guys: you rock and you finally did it. Thanks! Really.

We’ve been waiting for this Mac version for three years and we committed ourself to porting it only when all the other approaches (financing, lending an hand, handgun intimidation…) failed miserably.
We still think that without our contribution the MAC community would have been left without this wonderful software for long time. Maybe we’re wring, maybe we’re not.
Trolling isn’t always an answer, but sometimes it pays out. We did it for the lulz…. ;)

And if some funder want their money back, ask freely and we’ll return it.
We think we not only fulfilled our promise, but we exceeded the expectations you were putting on us.

Time to go on! Stay tuned!

matteo.

February 6, 2008 | Filed Under notes | 17 Comments 

They told you…

..that by the end of January TrueCrypt 5.0 would have been online…
After that they shut the Forums down…
After That they postponed the release to February 4th just as soon as we published the first alpha…

It’s February 5th and NO Truecrypt 5.0 is in the air…

Smelling funny, isn’t it?
In the meanwhile you can download OSXCrypt and be happy!

February 4, 2008 | Filed Under notes | 19 Comments 

Some clarification: no spaghetti code, only tight integration and BETA quality

Some day ago I (Matteo) gave the wrong impression that the coder (Orlando) wasn’t releasing the code due to “spaghetti” coding. Well, that is not a case and it’s time to say the truth about Orlando’s work:

Here is what HE says:

We’d like to address some points why this version is retained still “alpha”.

  1. Initially, the request was to write a straight port of TrueCrypt for the MacOS X platform, in the middle of the development, the request changed to support different encryption schemes, at that time the port was almost complete and functional.
  2. The framework has no final API defined yet, due to point 1.
  3. Given point 1 and 2, the code in “ocutil” is pretty tightened to TCrypt framework, that is the reason we had to put it back in “alpha” stage, really this is a “beta” more than “alpha”.
  4. Given point 3, the code is no spaghetti in the strict sense of the word, it’s just spaghetti in terms of final goals. You can see for yourself, this time the source code is public.
  5. There may be corner cases (expecially with partition or whole disk encryption) that we and others didn’t had the time to test throughly.

You know, better safe than sorrow.

To summarize: the project is alpha quality in terms of goals but beta quality in terms of functionality.

So, at the end of it, USE it. It will not kill your computer :) . Only be careful in case of Whole Disk or Partition encryption. The software is to be considered safe if proper backup are done…

January 27, 2008 | Filed Under administration, notes | 3 Comments 

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