<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Yes, they are continuing the audit. I saw the announcement this morning. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent from Samsung Mobile</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca> <br>Date:2014/05/30 12:44 (GMT-05:00) <br>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org> <br>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Truecrypt <br><br><br><br>Not having a viable option for Windows leaves a great big gaping hole<br>in the ecosystem for us. Furthermore migrating is going to be a huge<br>pain, because it took a lot of work to teach people the TrueCrypt UI,<br>and now we have to find something else. <br><br>I am not worried about the Linux side that much (although I have used<br>Truecrypt there as well). It's the Windows side that is sketchy.<br><br>Bitlocker might be an option but we would have to upgrade all of our<br>machines to Win7 Enterprise, which sucks since we just did a mass<br>migration. <br><br>I am looking at the alternatives, but it is hard to figure out what to<br>use. You really want to be careful about your encryption software.<br>(Obviously we were not careful enough in relying on Truecrypt.) I hope<br>a clear alternative approaches so that we can all migrate to it until<br>it too disappears in a cloud of uncertainty.<br><br>I wonder whether this means whether the audit will continue?<br><br>- Paul <br><br><br>On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:51:56AM -0400, CrankyOldBugger wrote:<br>> We use Bitlocker at work. I don't like it and of course I don't trust<br>> Microsoft. If you run into disk errors Bitlocker can be a major pain.<br>> <br>> If you go to alternativeto.net/software/truecrypt, there are a few<br>> alternatives to TrueCrypt but none of them come anywhere near TrueCrypt in<br>> terms of user votes.<br>> <br>> Personally I'll be sad if there's no more TrueCrypt for Windows as I use it<br>> regularly on one of my boxes.<br>> <br>> <br><br>-- <br>http://pnijjar.freeshell.org<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kwlug-disc mailing list<br>kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br></body>