> Do we literally don't know who created Truecrypt?
Yes, that's right. (The very earliest version was based on work 13 years ago by Paul Le Roux, but it's undergone enormous work since then by some person or group.)
TrueCrypt is a popular, carefully designed, well written, well maintained,
highly stable and non-trivial application, but its authors are completely
unknown. The open source world does have some quiet humble people, but it
seems surprising that the authors want to remain totally anonymous
for developing a legitimate and well-respected product.
Interesting. About anonymity, there is always the case where you don't want people knocking at your door to ask for backdoors, hidden vulnerabilities or any other requests about the software that you don't want to deal with.
Yes, that's right. (The very earliest version was based on work 13 years ago by Paul Le Roux, but it's undergone enormous work since then by some person or group.)
TrueCrypt is a popular, carefully designed, well written, well maintained, highly stable and non-trivial application, but its authors are completely unknown. The open source world does have some quiet humble people, but it seems surprising that the authors want to remain totally anonymous for developing a legitimate and well-respected product.