OK I know why
http://www.truecrypt.org has been unreachable for the past 48 hours. Wilfried Hafner, CEO of SecurStar (Drivecrypt), has been threatening them by legal means!
How much I despite SecurStar! Here is the official news:
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Subject: P. Le Roux (author of E4M) accused by W.Hafner (SecurStar)
From: TrueCrypt Team <tmp0402c@truecrypt.org>
Organization: TrueCrypt Team
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February 3, 2004
In the last two days, we have been receiving e-mails from Wilfried
Hafner, manager of SecurStar. In the e-mails he repeatedly accuses
Paul Le Roux, the author of Encryption for the Masses (E4M), of the
following:
1) Intellectual property theft, stealing the source code of E4M
from SecurStar (as an employee of SecurStar)
2) Writing an illegal license that permits anyone to base his/her
own work on E4M and distribute such modified work (while, according
to W. Hefner, P. Le Roux did not have any right to do so).
3) Distributing E4M illegally (according to W. Hefner, all versions
of E4M always belonged only to SecurStar)
These statements have been made to make us stop developing and
distributing TrueCrypt, which is based on E4M 2.02a.
As we have a strong suspicion that these statements are false, we
e-mailed Paul Le Roux and asked him to clear up this issue. Paul, we
would also appreciate if you could post a statement to this newsgroup
and sign it with the PGP key used to sign the archives containing
the original E4M 2.02a source code. The PGP key properties:
Name: Software Professionals <info@swprofessionals.com>
ID: 0xE7959B99
Fingerprint: B37D C864 9437 CD4D C313 9DC9 60E9 73E4
Type: RSA Legacy
Created: December 15, 1998
TrueCrypt distribution is suspended, until this issue is resolved.
Members of TrueCrypt Team
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