Re: [Tails-dev] TrueCrypt discontinued

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Author: sajolida
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] TrueCrypt discontinued
Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> As for what this means for Tails:
>
> 0) truecrypt 7.2 (the version released yesterday) is clearly a
> feature-regression compared to 7.1a (the version currently in tails. It
> is designed to discourage future use of the truecrypt sourcecode.
> Migrating to that new version seems problematic to me.
>
> 1) truecrypt 7.1a is clearly not something that upstream will support


Thanks for the info.

> 2) tails already has a plan to migrate away from truecrypt [1]
>
> 3) there is work to consider about providing an easy/comprehensible
> migration path for people who *did* use truecrypt in the past [2]
>
> The last point is probably the most challenging work for tails.


As you said, this is stuff that we already had on our radar. So maybe
the most concrete outcome of this announcement is that people will be
less prone to trolling when we finally get rid of it :)

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sajolida