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Old Jun 6, 2014 | 2:02 pm
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Originally Posted by CraigWatson
This is a prime example of when closed source goes bad. No source = no trust.

dmcrypt or lukscrypt plus GPG is the way to go
TrueCrypt makes source available, and you can build your own version from source easily enough. In practical terms, there is little stopping redistribution or forking.

That's "open source" enough for me.

Originally Posted by CraigWatson
Not quite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCry...d_source_model

TL;DR - TrueCrypt License != Open Source
The term "open source" predates OSI, and they don't have a trademark on it.
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