I mean, for this kind of project, the last thing you would want to do would be to download something from. You almost have to go open source, don't you? It's the only way to be sure there's no backdoor, that it works as advertised, that it actually uses those algorithms properly. Now, when you're talking about encryption software, it seems to me – and I'd like you to let me know what you think – that open source is really the only way to go. And their plans are to also move it to OS X.
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In fact, all of the recent work has been in adding features to it over on the Linux side, although Windows has also benefited in some ways.
It's now running on the 64bit platforms under Windows. But it runs on the newer Windows platforms. So you really shouldn't be using it on a really old machine. And a lot of things have been fixed in it since then. The very old version, only 1.0, ran on the 95/98/ME group of machines. Steve: And, I mean, it just – TrueCrypt is spelled T-r-u–e-C-r-y-p-t, and the site is It is now running on Windows 2000 and XP. And you can feel the influence of a team, which is really what you want in an open source mode where, you know, people were using it and someone said, hey, what about this, and now it's a feature. This is a traditional open source project. Leo: So this is a traditional open source – we're talking about TrueCrypt. It's just, I mean, as I browse the manual, as I was doing this morning, preparing to sit down and sort of, like, fresh myself up on the whole thing, I just had this wonderful feeling, like, okay, this is what open source and the whole open source community can produce when it really works well. They were not trying to force anything on anyone. It's like a bunch of guys over a long period of time who were not in a big hurry just worked out the most perfectly feature-packed, like, right set of things with no agenda. And I'm making a joke because today we're going to cover our favorite encryption program. Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Security Now! with Steve Gibson. In fact, there's some plausible deniability that he was ever here. Security Now! is brought to you by Astaro, makers of the Astaro Security Gateway, on the web at Steve seems to have hidden today. This is Security Now! with Steve Gibson, Episode #41 for May 25, 2006: TrueCrypt. Leo Laporte: Bandwidth for Security Now! is provided by AOL Radio at AOL.com/podcasting.
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