14 DAY TRIAL // According to Amazon documentation regarding importing and exporting data to and from Amazon S3 storage, TrueCrypt is the only solution supported for such operations.
On May 28, however, development for the TrueCrypt project, handled by unknown author(s), ceased all of a sudden. Starting from then, truecrypt.org redirects to the Sourceforge page of the product, where a warning about the application no longer being secure is displayed:
“WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues. This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt.”
The migration option offered involves the use of Windows BitLocker and presents various scenarios with drives encrypted with TrueCrypt. Alternatives for other platforms are also offered.
Data exported from Amazon S3 can still be decrypted at the moment, as the latest TrueCrypt version, 7.2, includes this capability; but this build of the application has been stripped of the encryption function.
As such, since the termination of the TrueCrypt project more than two weeks ago, Amazon Web Services use the same encryption solution, and the unlocking of the data relies on the TrueCrypt password available in the export manifest.
Users who need a previous version of TrueCrypt that includes the encryption feature (7.1a and earlier) can still get it from online sources, including Softpedia.