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May 30, 2014 | 3:14 pm

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Janus

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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel

But where would there be a master key that could be compromised?

It's possible they learned that there's an NSA plant involved or something.

Here are my two "tin foil hat" scenarios.

First, the NSA/GCHQ/Russian mob/etc approached the TrueCrypt devs to put in a backdoor into future versions. Allow them to decrypt any newly encrypted drive/volume. Instead of bowing to their wishes, the TrueCrypt developers decided to throw in the towel in the most spectacular way. This way, even if they were forced to return to the project, the general public would no longer be using TrueCrypt.

Second, the NSA/GCHQ/Russian mob/etc had previously approached the TrueCrypt devs and there is already a backdoor. Fearing that the TrueCrypt Audit Project (istruecryptauditedyet.com) would discover the backdoor, the developers decided to throw in the towel.

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