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For a student or young developer interesting in cryptography, the reward is in the work itself, and in other people using the software. I believe TrueCrypt was started as a student project, and was no longer worth the effort to the developer(s). I'll mention my theory of what happened with TrueCrypt here, because it's relevant to a search for alternatives.
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Give it a couple of months before you start switching over to some other solution (which is likely to be less "battle-hardened" than the incredibly popular TrueCrypt anyway, and thus somewhat more likely to be insecure). TrueCrypt is pretty much just as good as it was before this happened.
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TRUECRYPT ALTERNATIVE FOR WINDOWS 8 SOFTWARE
The last time TrueCrypt was updated was two years ago - it's stable software that doesn't need constant tweaking, so the developers bowing out is not a problem.Ĭhances are, someone will either fork TrueCrypt (version 3.1 of the TrueCrypt license seems to make this a legitimate possiblity) or create a replacement, possibly using the same container format. Despite the "security concerns" expressed in the TrueCrypt page, which were clearly a joke, there's no reason to think TrueCrypt has any significant vulnerabilities at this time, and the second phase of the audit will take place as scheduled. I've said this before in a few places, and it's (semi-) relevant here, but I really think people need to relax about replacing TrueCrypt.