That statement threw me for a loop.
Yes. “Trust - but verify” is a good adage.
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prism-break.org says the following:
“While TrueCrypt is open source, it is developed in a closed fashion and may receive less review than a comparably openly developed project. That said, it is still probably the best option for file encryption on Windows and OS X.
“If you’re running GNU/Linux, dm-crypt with LUKS is the recommended encryption option.”
Bruce Schneier has about the same comments. I’ve used TrueCrypt and LUKS and probably the best thing to do is run Linux as opposed to Windows.
About 8 years ago, I had to send encrypted docs to the DOJ for work. They asked that I use Truecrypt as it was what they used (at the time). I don’t know much about encryption but the recent revelation regarding the NSA “asking” for SSL certs from websites leads me to believe they have had to come up with other means of circumventing encryption other than cracking it by brute force.