Ever since TrueCrypt developers terminated the development of the popular encryption utility and announced that it was not safe to use, users who need such a tool have been looking for an alternative, safe solution.

While the Open Crypt Audit Project, headed by cryptographer Matthew Green and Kenneth White, Principal Scientist at Social & Scientific Systems, has been considering whether to take over the development of TrueCrypt and is working on the second phase of the audit process (a thorough analysis of the code responsable for the actual encryption process), one of TrueCrypt’s developers has expressed his disapproval of a project that would fork the software.

“I don’t feel that forking TrueCrypt would be a good idea, a complete rewrite was something we wanted to do for a while,” he said. “I believe that starting from scratch wouldn’t require much more work than actually learning and understanding all of TrueCrypt’s current codebase. I have no problem with the source code being used as reference.”

But, as the need for a secure alternative to TrueCrypt is great, there have been attempts to fork the software. One of these projects, initially found on Truecrypt.ch, will definitely be forking TrueCrypt.

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