[ciphershed] Re: TrueCrypt Author Claims That Forking Is Impossible http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/06/19/145219/truecrypt-author-claims-that-forking-is-impossible
- From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:32:55 -0400
Could anyone please enlighten me as to what possible reason this original
TrueCrypt developer feels a fork would be impossible?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure VeraCrypt is a fork, and we
are working on a fork, so...either I'm missing some crucial point, am taking
crazy pills, or that original TrueCrypt developer has a very questionable
definition of "impossible".
Alain
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http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/06/19/145219/truecrypt-author-claims-that-forking-is-impossible
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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