[ciphershed] TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/06/19/145219/truecrypt-author-claims-that-forking-is-impossible

  • From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:23:04 -0400

From slashdot:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/06/19/145219/truecrypt-author-claims-that-forkin
g-is-impossible

http://pastebin.com/RS0f8gwn

On a request from Matthew Green to fork the TrueCrypt code, the author answers
that this is impossible. He says that this might be no good idea, because the
code needs a rewrite, but he allows to use the existing code as a reference. "I
am sorry, but I think what you're asking for here is impossible. I don't feel
that forking TrueCrypt would be a good idea, a complete rewrite was something we
wanted to do for a while. I believe that starting from scratch wouldn't require
much more work than actually learning and understanding all of truecrypts
current codebase. I have no problem with the source code being used as
reference."


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