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There was a reason for disappearance of TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt was forked into VeraCrypt, which is still maintained.
What reason? It was broken?
It was very likely compromised by NSA requiring a backdoor or weakened encryption that could be cracked by the US. There's a long story that's pretty interesting if you want to hit the rabbit hole
Suddenly dev resigned and posted bizzare post that read like he was at a gunpoint, recommending bitlocker instead of truecrypt
No, it worked so well that the governments didn't like it.