[Cryptography] What happened to the E4M/TrueCrypt author

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> In the late 1990s there was a Windows disk encryption program called
> Encryption for the Masses or E4M, which later became TrueCrypt.  The author of
> E4M, Paul LeRoux, later moved on to other endeavours:
>
>  Along the way he had, among other endeavors, simultaneously fed the American
>  opioid epidemic; built his own base operations in Somalia, protected by an
>  armed militia; run gold and timber extraction operations in a half-dozen
>  African countries; laundered millions of dollars through Hong Kong; plotted
>  a coup in the Seychelles (later abandoned); bought off law enforcement in
>  the Philippines, where he was based; trafficked methamphetamine out of North
>  Korea; and overseen a team of engineers building missile guidance systems
>  for Iran and drones for drug delivery.
>
>  (From https://www.wired.com/story/was-bitcoin-created-by-this-international-drug-dealer-maybe)
>
> Ignoring the Bitcoin angle, it's hard to imagine it's the same person:
>
> https://www.amazon.com/Mastermind-hunt-Worlds-prolific-criminal-ebook/dp/B07JVBNCS7

A very long series of articles that this book is an extension of is
available at: https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind

Paul