> Use Hardware RNG based on CPU timing jitter "Jitterentropy" by Stephan Mueller as a good alternative to CPU RDRAND (<a href="http://www.chronox.de/jent.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.chronox.de/jent.html</a>)<p>I have never heard of Jitterentropy but it sounds vaguely like previous attempts at RNGs.<p>/r/crypto had a good discussion about this topic a while ago: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/9dln0v/whats_the_problem_with_dakarandtruerandtwuewand/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/9dln0v/whats_the_pr...</a><p>My intuition is that this is dangerous and will likely result in security bugs in the future.
slightly off-topic, but could someone verify a memory I have regarding the shutdown of TrueCrypt?<p>I vaguely remember after it was announced that the project was disbanded, that there was one single commit from the authors whose only change was a textual replacement of "United States" with "USA" everywhere it appeared.<p>Coming from the highly anonymous and secretive TrueCrypt group, this was interpreted in this most scandalous possible way. I.e. the US govt was somehow strongarming them. I'm not claiming that part is true, I'm just curious if my memory is correct about the whole incident.
I really tried to use VeraCrypt on my main desktop Windows machine. But every Windows 10 major update was a chore to get working with decrypting everything, especially with GPT. (Did you know that if you leave updating Windows too long the calculator just straight up stops working?) Eventually I caved in and bought Windows Pro so I could use BitLocker (I'm aware of the problems of using closed-source encryption software but it's good enough for me). Another sad victory for Microsoft's anti-competitive practices.
After reading this thread, what alternatives do we have to VeraCrypt? Or simply do we put our effort into improving the current version and help it improve?
macOS Catalina related: Can Veracrypt read and write a completely Truecrypt encrypted drive? Asking because new macOS will not support the latest Truecrypt anymore because it is 32bit software :/