Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/DiskCryptor

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First working version of the DiskCryptor was released in November 2007, when there were no plans stated on http://www.truecrypt.org/future.php to include system partition encryption feature. At that time, DiskCryptor was called "TrueCrypt WDE", and immediately a post has been put on TrueCrypt's forum, to announce this new product. Shortly, however, the post has been deleted, due to the argument that the program cannot bear "TrueCrypt" in it's name, as it is a trademark. In addition to that, the developer's of the TrueCrypt, also noted to the developer of "TrueCrypt WDE" that he cannot use the GPL license for his program either, because if he took parts of the TrueCrypt code, then he has to use the TrueCrypt's license as well.

So therefore the next release of the program became known as the DiskCryptor, and the code that was previously taken from the TrueCrypt project, has been rewritten, in order to be able to use the GPL license.

So it can be argued, that the advent of the DiskCryptor was an initiative for the TrueCrypt developers, to speed up their development of the system partition encryption feature, and announce that on their future plan page.

Regarding malware/trojan speculations, - one is innocent until proven guilty, - this is what an accepted standard is, I believe.

Do you have an independently verifiable source for that historical information? I think it's interesting and useful information that would improve the Wikipedia article, but it can't be added without a source. -- BenRG (talk) 21:51, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

There is info on that (in Russian), and it is located on the DiskCryptor's guestbook:

http://freed0m.org/?index=guestbook&page=6

I believe, that people who managed to see the post about "TrueCrypt WDE" on TrueCrypt's forum, before it was deleted, should also be able to confirm that. TrueCrypt's forum however has been shut down for a long time now, for some reason, so at that time it's impossible to ask people there for any input. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shtraue (talk • contribs) 21:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)