TrueCrypt Lives On as New Team Relocates to Switzerland
A group of developers has decided to continue supporting free encryption tool TrueCrypt which appeared to have suddenly closed its doors last week, leaving customers angry and confused.
A new website has been created at truecrypt.ch where Thomas Bruderer and Joseph Doekbrijder are co-ordinating efforts to make existing versions of the product available again and eventually to fork the code for future development.
Before this happens they will need to get “interested and capable” people on board on the technical and legal side, and then wait for the results of an on-going security audit of the code which could hold the key to why it was abandoned in the first place. As the new '.ch' domain suggests, the new TrueCrypt project has been moved to Switzerland, in order to “guarantee no interruption due to legal threats” which may come from the US authorities.
