Overview

There are many users who have continued to user TrueCrypt 7.1a for a number of reasons; specifically:

1. TrueCrypt is not actively being developed or supported, but there are no indications of security vulnerabilities with TrueCrypt, and
2. There are no clear and obvious alternatives to TrueCrypt which are as good / better than TrueCrypt 7.1a.

However – Neither of these reasons are still valid. In September 2015, a researcher discovered two additional security flaws in TrueCrypt 7.1a, one of which is critical (CVE-2015-7358), potentially allowing elevated privileges on a TrueCrypt system.

In addition, VeraCrypt is a fork of the TrueCrypt 7.1a codebase, is stable, and has already patched these two vulnerabilities (in addition to several others previously identified).

Bottom Line – It is time for any Truecrypt users to remove and replace with VeraCrypt.

Links

• http://www.pcworld.com/article/2987439/encryption/newly-found-truecrypt-flaw-allows-full-system-compromise.html
• https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/