But a cursory review of the site’s historic hosting, WHOIS and DNS records shows no substantive changes recently.

You should migrate any data encrypted by TrueCrypt to encrypted disks or virtual disk images supported on your platform.”ĭoubters soon questioned whether the redirect was a hoax or the result of the TrueCrypt site being hacked. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms (click here for more information). Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. “The development of TrueCrypt was ended in 5/2014 after Microsoft terminated support of Windows XP. “This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.” “WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues”

The page also includes this ominous warning: That page includes instructions for helping Windows users transition drives protected by TrueCrypt over to BitLocker, the proprietary disk encryption program that ships with every Windows version (Ultimate/Enterprise or Pro) since Vista.

Sometime in the last 24 hours, began forwarding visitors to the program’s home page on, a Web-based source code repository. The anonymous developers responsible for building and maintaining the free whole-disk encryption suite TrueCrypt apparently threw in the towel this week, shuttering the TrueCrypt site and warning users that the product is no longer secure now that Microsoft has ended support for Windows XP.

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