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Getting TrueCrypt ported to Mac OS X!

osxcrypt.org — We require to reach 1500 USD to provide financing to make the porting of Truecrypt (www.truecrypt.org) to Mac OS X. Please donate some dollars here and spread this fantastic opensource security community grow opportunity: http://www.osxcrypt.org OSXCRYPT = TrueCrypt for Mac OS X Finally free of not trusting FileVault anymore.

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  • Oakes, on 10/16/2007, -1/+4The cynic in me wonders whether this might be a scam. We're giving $1500 to a random guy named "lastknight" who doesn't even name the programmer he's going to hire to complete this project. What's to stop him from taking the money and running?

    All I found from Google was a mailing list message that looks like it was written by a 7th grader:
    http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclo ...

    Not to mention that this is completely outside the Truecrypt project, which has already promised its own Mac version, so it will not benefit from future updates.
  • lastknight, on 01/23/2008, -0/+1...but while Truecrypt Devels bark in a corner about a future version, OSXCrypt released the application. Free.

    http://www.osxcrypt.org/download/
    Happy Secrets!
  • syneo, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I'm not sure why you send money to some greedy commercial developer (who will develop a free open source program only after you pay to him a set amount!). A TrueCrypt Forums moderator announced that the TrueCrypt developers already have an alpha version of TrueCrypt for OS X.

    Quote from http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=36516# 36516

    "As a Mac OS X version has been on the developers' to do list for a long time, I asked one of the TrueCrypt developers about it today and here's what he told me. They have been working on a Mac OS X version for some time and there is already a working alpha version. At the same time they have been working on TrueCrypt 5.0 for Windows and Linux. They will continue working on the project whether people donate money to the TrueCrypt project or not (the OS X version has never been conditioned upon donations).

    Note: Alpha versions are available only to developers (they aren't publicly released)."
  • Drizzit, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Why does this sound like a Nigerian Scam?
  • streak, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Trust of FileVault aside, just having a cross-platform (Mac,Win,Lin) encryption tool would be great.

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