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Is TrueCrypt 7.1a safe to use on Win7 - and still remain safe in the future? - Dol Amroth - Jan 3, 2015
Hello,
I have seen a lot of arguments wheter TrueCrypt 7.1a is safe or not. Some says that they know security exploits on Windows, others says that it's not reliable. So what is the truth?
Is it still safe to use TrueCrypt 7.1a? If not, what are the vulneralibities and is it a real concern that someone can simply exploit the folders I'm encrypting with TrueCrypt?
(Because I would potentially use TrueCrypt to securely encrypt some sensitive files/folders.)
Thank you for any constructive answers. 🤝
* - mv3.dds - Jan 3, 2015
(Jan 3, 2015 04:26 PM)Dol Amroth Wrote: Hello,
I have seen a lot of arguments wheter TrueCrypt 7.1a is safe or not. Some says that they know security exploits on Windows, others says that it's not reliable. So what is the truth?
Is it still safe to use TrueCrypt 7.1a? If not, what are the vulneralibities and is it a real concern that someone can simply exploit the folders I'm encrypting with TrueCrypt?
(Because I would potentially use TrueCrypt to securely encrypt some sensitive files/folders.)
Thank you for any constructive answers. 🤝
i have not seen security paper updates since mid-November, but from what i'd read at that point, there were no exploitable issues. backdoor still not discovered. only issues were very minor..like pre-bundled libraries and old coding. the developer warning is still a mystery. hopefully someone else will have more info for you.
still susceptible to smm rootkits, but so is 99.999999% everything else.
* - Canonsx130 - Jan 3, 2015
(Jan 3, 2015 06:06 PM)mv3.dds Wrote: i have not seen security paper updates since mid-November, but from what i'd read at that point, there were no exploitable issues. backdoor still not discovered. only issues were very minor..like pre-bundled libraries and old coding. the developer warning is still a mystery. hopefully someone else will have more info for you.
still susceptible to smm rootkits, but so is 99.999999% everything else.
This. 7.1a is safe to use. I've personally used it and on lots of my clients' machine with no problems whatsoever.
* - Aura - Jan 3, 2015
TrueCrypt 7.1a is still safe to use. The security audit being ran on it at the moment didn't reveal any vulnerabilities or exploits to it. If you need, I still have the original TrueCrypt 7.1a installer that I uploaded to mega.co.nz and I can give you the links if needed.
* - Dol Amroth - Jan 4, 2015
(Jan 3, 2015 08:18 PM)Aurа Wrote: TrueCrypt 7.1a is still safe to use. The security audit being ran on it at the moment didn't reveal any vulnerabilities or exploits to it. If you need, I still have the original TrueCrypt 7.1a installer that I uploaded to mega.co.nz and I can give you the links if needed.
Thank you for your answer, that would be really gerat! 🤝
* - desynk - Jan 4, 2015
It's available here: https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
* - NoScript - Jan 4, 2015
As far as I know, It is still safe to use.
* - Aura - Jan 4, 2015
(Jan 4, 2015 04:01 AM)Dol Amroth Wrote: Thank you for your answer, that would be really gerat! 🤝
No problem, here it is:
https://mega.co.nz/#!vRAySAxR!brQR5Y_dmKn7y08Qtf8LJA-EMUX5Ivuc88JaM9V6nUs
Good thing I keep every installers I download in a folder on my HDD 😝
* - Pr0m3th3us - Jan 10, 2015
Thanks for this and all the recent threads on TrueCrypt, was wondering about whats going on with that.