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TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-hopefully-won't-disappear-into-the-void dept.

storagedude writes: Amid ongoing security concerns, the popular open source encryption program TrueCrypt may have found new life under a new name. Under the terms of the TrueCrypt license — which was a homemade open source license written by the authors themselves rather than a standard one — a forking of the code is allowed if references to TrueCrypt are removed from the code and the resulting application is not called TrueCrypt. Thus, CipherShed will be released under a standard open source license, with long-term ambitions to become a completely new product.

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  1. Maybe it'll actually be trustworthy this time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here's hoping the audit is a success.

  2. FOSS names by asmkm22 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just curious. Is there some kind of unwritten rule that FOSS project names have to as crappy as possible? Is it just a translation thing, where maybe the name makes more sense or sounds better in the dev's native tongue? Has anyone been part of a FOSS project and was involved in the naming of it?

  3. Expect a FISA or PRISM notice in... by Bomarc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How long before they get a FISA or PRISM notice?
    Wonder if they will have a "Warrant Canary" posting.