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#Truecrypt 7.2 review install#
#Truecrypt 7.2 review software#
#Truecrypt 7.2 review code#
#Truecrypt 7.2 review windows#

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 (Professional Edition or compatible).

#Truecrypt 7.2 review software#

In the sources, the Readme file specifies the following list of software to have on your system in order to compile TrueCrypt: Now we are pretty sure that we are in possession of the official binaries to be compared to our build. Now, you can trust this binary if you trust VerySign, a popular certificate authority, and its public key that is embedded in your OS.

You should see This digital signature is OK.

Select TrueCrypt Foundation in the list, click on Details.

Right click on the executable, go to Digital Signatures.

This means that the TrueCrypt Setup 7.1a.exe file you downloaded is what TrueCrypt Foundation provides on their website and you downloaded that exact binary, as long as you trust their public key you downloaded over HTTPS.Ĭhecking the X.509 signature is more trivial:

Click Decrypt/Verify: You should see a nice green label saying the signature is valid.

The signed data field should point to the binary to verify ( TrueCrypt Setup 7.1a.exe). and choose TrueCrypt Setup 7.1a.exe.sig that you downloaded before.

Now, to verify the binary signature, go to File > Decrypt/Verify files.

Enter your passphrase to use your private key to sign TrueCrypt's key.

If they are the same, check the box I have verified the fingerprint, click Next and Certify.

Check TrueCrypt Foundation, look at the fingerprint given and compare it with the one shown on TrueCrypt's website ( ): they should be the same.

Once you have your keys, right click again on TrueCrypt's public key and choose Certify Certificate.

Finally, no need to backup or send your key to a server.

Go to File > New Certificate, choose OpenPGP key pair and follow the instructions (no need to provide true data here).

You should also generate your own key pair to sign this key in order to show you really trust it and get a nice confirmation when verifying the binary.

Now you should mark the key as trusted: right click on the TrueCrypt Foundation public key in the list under Imported Certificate tab > Change Owner Trust, and set it as I believe checks are casual.

asc file in the keyring (File > Import certificates).

After the installation, launch Kleopatra.

#Truecrypt 7.2 review install#

Download and install it to follow the instructions below, or verify the signature with your favorite software. In order to verify the PGP signature of the binary, I use Gpg4win 2.2.1. Note: Links to the TrueCrypt website are no longer working, you will have to find the files elsewhere such as on or /drwhax/truecrypt-archive.

#Truecrypt 7.2 review windows#

Version 7.2 is compiled in the same way as version 7.1a, with a project path set to c:\truecrypt-7.2, consistent with the previous builds' scheme.Īccording to my analysis, the binaries of v7.2 for Windows match the available sources.

#Truecrypt 7.2 review code#

The legitimacy of this last release can be questioned, however you can at least verify that it matches the available sources (and hence again, that the given compiled source code is the one you can read) by following the steps in this article. The TrueCrypt project was apparently abruptly shut down on and provides a farewell edition (v7.2) that is stripped of any code that enables the creation of new encrypted volumes and adds a feature to decrypt existing non-system encrypted drives in-place to facilitate the transition to other encryption tools. I am also able to explain the small remaining differences and then prove that the official binaries indeed come from the public sources.

In this article, I present how I compiled TrueCrypt 7.1a for Windows and reached a very close match with the official binaries. However, it is still at an early stage (as of October 2013) and tries to raise funds first. Recently, the IsTrueCryptAuditedYet project was launched and aims at reviewing TrueCrypt's security and, among other things, providing deterministic build so as to enable everyone to compare her version to the official one. Since we haven't done such a reverse engineering we can't preclude that there is a back door hidden within those binary packages." This concern has also been raised in this analysis, saying: " Without a very expensive “reverse engineering” it can't be proved that they are compiled from the published source code. Hence, anyone compiling the sources will get different binaries, as pointed by this article on Privacy Lover, saying that " it is exceedingly difficult to generate binaries from source that match the binaries provided by Truecrypt." This has led some speculations regarding the possibility of having backdoors in the official binaries that cannot be found easily.

TrueCrypt is a project that doesn't provide deterministic builds.