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Very nice work, especially given status of the TrueCrypt license, which may not be acceptable for most open source operating systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#Licensing

Hopefully, this will provide a good basis for others to bring TrueCrypt support to other BSDs and Linux.

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The licence isn't the only weird thing about truecrypt, the fact that they've been known to change their binaries (as I believe was reported on HN a while back) without posting a changelog, the fact that no one knows who the devs really are etc... all somewhat suspicious for such a high profile tool. But maybe I'm too paranoid in my paranoia.

I for one welcome our new overlords!

> the fact that they've been known to change their binaries

It was shown that the change was only to the license embedded in the installer, the actual executables were unchanged.

Link to the TC forum admin explaining it: http://forums.truecrypt.org/viewtopic.php?p=95255#95255

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