[ciphershed] Re: VeraCrypt & TCNext are joining
- From: "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:15:51 -0400
Perhaps the author wasn't as diligent with legal/copyright issues as we are
being?
We have the luxury (or sometimes curse? :-P) of having many viewpoints from
many backgrounds and areas of expertise, including legal aspects and how they
apply to our endeavour. Perhaps VeraCrypt's author, Mounir Idrassi, was less
knowledgeable and/or diligent about such legal aspects?
Alain
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Subject: [ciphershed] Re: VeraCrypt & TCNext are joining
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alain Forget
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 9:53
>
> The website (https://veracrypt.codeplex.com) shows
> screenshots that definitely suggest it supports Windows
> (maybe exclusively?). The source history suggests the project
It is licensed under the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
But...
VeraCrypt is a free disk encryption software brought to you by IDRIX
(http://www.idrix.fr) and that is based on TrueCrypt, freely available at
http://www.truecrypt.org/.
So how did they change the license? Clean room development? Grant from the
authors?
But they also say:
VeraCrypt storage format is INCOMPATIBLE with TrueCrypt storage format.
And then in the source it has TrueCrypt License Version 3.0
My head is spinning....
> started a year ago.
>
> Alain
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niklas
> Lemcke - ???
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 09:47
> To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [ciphershed] Re: VeraCrypt & TCNext are joining
>
> VeraCrypt has been around for a while. As far as I remember it's not
> Windows compatible though. (somebody correct me if I'm wrong)
>
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:42:29 -0400
> "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Interesting; I wonder why we (or at least I) hadn't heard
> of VeraCrypt by now, and why there seems to only have been
> one person ever working on it, especially since the recent
> TrueCrypt "scare", which is what brought us together.
> >
> > Alain
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PID0
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 08:50
> > To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ciphershed] VeraCrypt & TCNext are joining
> >
> > https://twitter.com/TrueCryptNext/status/479243071477932033
>
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