TrueCrypt encrypted volume format is well known and there are tools out there that can create TrueCrypt volumes and open them.
There is tcplay[1]. This project can create and open TrueCrypt volumes.
There is cryptsetup[2].This is a linux native solution for block device encryption and supports opening of TrueCrypt volumes.
The above two projects and command line based and there is a third project called zuluCrypt[3] that gives a GUI front end to the two projects.
I am not aware of any alternative solutions in windows or OSX that does support TrueCrypt encrypted format but adding support for it should not be that hard.
This maybe the end of line for TrueCrypt as a project,but its encrypted volume format may still be used as a "universal cross platform encrypted volume format".
Somebody should file a bug report in projects that deal with block device encryption in windows and OSX and ask them to support this format as i think the format should live on as its the only one that is widely used and supported.
There is tcplay[1]. This project can create and open TrueCrypt volumes.
There is cryptsetup[2].This is a linux native solution for block device encryption and supports opening of TrueCrypt volumes.
The above two projects and command line based and there is a third project called zuluCrypt[3] that gives a GUI front end to the two projects.
I am not aware of any alternative solutions in windows or OSX that does support TrueCrypt encrypted format but adding support for it should not be that hard.
This maybe the end of line for TrueCrypt as a project,but its encrypted volume format may still be used as a "universal cross platform encrypted volume format".
Somebody should file a bug report in projects that deal with block device encryption in windows and OSX and ask them to support this format as i think the format should live on as its the only one that is widely used and supported.
[1] https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play
[2] https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
[3] https://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/