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Truecrypt link to Paul le roux
1 point by Doubl on Feb 2, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
There is a story in today's London Times that Paul le roux a drug trafficker awaiting sentencing in the US was the/a developer of truecrypt. He s arrested in 2014 the same year truecrypt was discontinued.



The story's been floating around for a few years. It seems apparent that he worked on some precursors to TC at a bare minimum.

There's a ton of information here: https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind, and it seems there's a book coming out or already out by the same name (Mastermind).




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